The Miami Herald reports that a great-uncle of Elián González and other relatives plan Friday to publicly denounce two Barack Obama campaign advisors who helped send the boy back to his father in Cuba eight years ago. González will hold a 1 p.m. news conference outside the Little Havana home where Elián lived with relatives for several months in 2000. Elián is now 14 years old and has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. Since he was forced by the American government to return to Cuba the Communist government has made sure to support and foster a love for the dictatorship in the boy so that he could be used as the ultimate propaganda piece, as he has been. 
The Uncle says that Obama foreign-policy advisor Greg Craig represented Elián's father from Cuba in the custody battle with the Miami relatives fighting to keep him out of the Communist dictatorship they had fled. Obama legal advisor Eric Holder who was also a key member of Obama's vice-presidential search committee was deputy attorney general when the 6-year-old boy was seized and forced to return to Cuba.
''We're going to express opposition to Barack Obama's visit to Miami, and explain how we're opposed to him having individuals on his campaign who were associated with Elián's seizure in 2000,'' González said. ``Some wounds are so deep that they do not heal over time, such as taking a child and sealing his fate to a communist dictatorship.''
González is 74. He said that the Republican Party had no role in his upcoming press conference or his opposition to Barack Obama.
This is going to create problem for Obama with the Florida Cuban community. It is not only the fact that he has advisors who had a role in returning Elian to go back to Cuba but the positions he himself has taken on Cuba since the campaign has begun. Obama has said he would engage in talks "without preconditions" with the Castro government hoping Castro will change his stripes after a nice sit down over Cuban cigars with the prophet from Chicago.
The following is a picture of Elian (on the right) from June 14. He smiles as he attends an event marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Havana.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
American Relatives Of Elian Gonzales Set To Blast Barack Obama
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No matter how you twist it, that child was returned to his next of kin, which is exactly what the U.S. would have demanded had the situation been reversed.
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