Transcript: Cuban Child Custody Trial Resembles Elian Fiasco

ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
08-27-2007
Cuban Child Custody Trial Resembles Elian Fiasco

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
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This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.

In Miami, a child custody trial begins this week that evokes reminders of Elian Gonzalez. That was the case of a Cuban boy who was sent back to Cuba to live with his father after a standoff with Florida relatives who wanted to keep him in the United States.

In this new instance, the child is a 4-year-old girl. Like Elian, she has a father on the island, and the Cuban-American family that wants to adopt her.

From Miami, NPR's Greg Allen reports.

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