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Top: Regional: Caribbean: Cuba: Society_and_Culture: Politics: People
In November 1999, five-year-old Elián, his mother, and twelve others fled Cuba on a small aluminum boat with a faulty engine. Elián's mother and ten others died in the crossing. Elián was rescued at sea by two fishermen who then gave him to the United States Coast Guard, who gave him to the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.INS released Elián to his great-uncle, Lázaro, who lived in Miami and was granted temporary custody by the local family court. However, Juan Miguel González, Elian's father said that Elián's mother, Elizabeth, took him without Juan Miguel's knowledge and demanded that the boy be returned to Cuba.
The ensuing controversy included street demonstrations in Miami and in Cuba, forcible removal of the child from his relatives, a series of Florida and US court cases, and Elian's eventual return to Cuba with his father in June, 2000.
While Elian and his family have generally resumed their ordinary lives, he continues to be a media figure in the US and in Cuba.
Assata Shakur (born Joanne Deborah Byron Chesimard July 16, 1947 in New York City) was an activist in the US-based Black Panther Party and later the Black Liberation Army. She was granted political asylum in Cuba in 1984.Shakur remains a fugitive from New Jersey and the United States for her 1979 escape from prison. She had been incarcerated for the 1973 slaying of New Jersey State Police officer Werner Foerster in a gunfight following a traffic stop. She was also convicted of a second murder, for the death of fellow activist Zayd Shakur, who was also killed in the incident.
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