The Elián González house
Five months, one small house, and the picture that ended it.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
Alan Diaz, a photographer for the Associated Press, won this family's trust by obeying one order: do not speak to the boy. The boy was Elián González. He was five when he was found adrift off Fort Lauderdale on Thanksgiving Day 1999. His mother had died crossing from Cuba. Immigration officials released him to his great-uncle, Lázaro González, in this small house. His father in Cuba wanted him back.
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Visiting
2319 NW 2nd Street, Little Havana. A house on a residential street: see it from the sidewalk only. A relative once ran it as a small museum, and it should not be expected to be open.
Sources
- Alan Diaz, AP photographer behind Elian image, dies at 71, NBC Miami, 2018
- Miami home still bears scars of raid that took Elian, Deseret News, 2005
- 20 years ago, Elian Gonzalez raid, CBS Miami, 2020
- Elian Slept Here, CBS News, 2000
- Great-uncle who fought to keep Elian Gonzalez in U.S. dies at 79, Fox News, 2016
- Elián González affair, Wikipedia
- Bruce Shapiro on the raid, Salon, 22 April 2000
- Elián Museum Keeps Faith in Little Havana, Martin Turenne, Georgia Straight, 2004
- Elián Gonzalez chronology, PBS Frontline
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