I was 20 years old on Thanksgiving Day 1999 when little Elián González, surrounded by dolphins, was found drifting off the Fort Lauderdale coast. The name "Elián González" may ring a bell for ...

"A frustration that people carry inside of them." On Thanksgiving 1999, Elian Gonzalez was found on an inner tube floating in the Atlantic Ocean off Dania Beach. His mother, lost at sea ...

Twenty-five years after federal agents stormed a Miami home to seize 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez and return him to Cuba, the now 31-year-old industrial engineer and Cuban National Assembly member ...

In 1999, Gonzalez was found clinging to a tiny flotilla which was caught in a violent storm that killed his mother and most of their group. González's father, who was divorced from his mother ...

In this April 22, 2000, file photo by Associated Press photojournalist Alan Diaz, Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, right, as government officials search for the boy in his ...

Elián González, the Cuban national who set off an international custody battle as a child when he was found floating alone in the Florida straits in 1999, is about to become a member of the ...

Twenty-five years ago, the amazing rescue of a young boy at sea would lead to a fierce custody battle that mirrored the decades-long tensions between the United States and Cuba. A gripping new ...

Twenty-five years ago, a six-year-old boy named Elian Gonzalez appeared off the coast of Miami. He and his mother had been traveling by boat to the U.S. from Cuba. His mother didn't survive the ...

Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy ...

The Elian Gonzalez soap opera may have long since had its season finale, but many of its characters continue to read off old scripts, hoping against hope to keep the drama playing through the summer.

HAVANA (AP) — Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between ...