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Article: The Sins of the Fathers: In its hatred for Fidel Castro, Miami's Cuban community has betrayed its own family values.(Elian Gonzalez case)(The Last Word)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
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- April 24, 2000
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One thing is certain: they would never have dared do this to a mother. The sad saga of Elian Gonazalez, a small boy turned into a political soap opera by people of dueling opinions who profess his best interests, has been full of double standards. But one of the most obvious is this: had it been the child's father who had taken him in a rickety boat across the broad swath of ocean between Cuba and Florida, had the child's sole surviving parent been a weeping woman after his father disappeared beneath the surface of the water as the boy floated in an inner tube in shark-infested seas, that woman would not have had to become a frustrated supplicant, pressed into begging ...
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