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Speaker 1: April twenty one, two thousand, was a sunny day in Miami.

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Speaker 1: Thames were in the mid eighties, not a drop of rain,

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Speaker 1: and it was the start of Easter weekend. Protesters were

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Speaker 1: still outside Aliant's relatives home, but despite the commotion outside,

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Speaker 1: Elian's cousin Mary Lacy's tried to keep things normal inside.

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Speaker 2: We were in the house with his little cousin making

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Speaker 1: There were at least eight relatives inside the home, including

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Speaker 1: two other children besides Elian.

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Speaker 3: Now this is a house full of people. When I

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Speaker 3: say a house full, was a small, little home, not

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Speaker 1: This is the Nato dal rimple. Remember the man who

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Speaker 1: rescued the liam from the ocean. He'd become pretty close

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Speaker 1: with the family and he would go to their house

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Speaker 1: practically every day. And this night, thanks Seamed come.

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Speaker 3: I have a couple of little Cuban coffees with some people,

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Speaker 3: and they were praying very peacefully.

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Speaker 1: While the family hung out in the front of the house.

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Speaker 1: There were lawyers in the back room negotiating with the government,

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Speaker 1: trying to find a way to keep Elian in the US,

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Speaker 1: and with the Miami family. One of the lawyers, Money Das,

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Speaker 1: said that good Friday, during the day, we were told.

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Speaker 4: Point blank, this agreement is acceptable to the Attorney General.

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Speaker 4: It was faxed to her office because she wanted to

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Speaker 4: see a facts of it. We have basically told the

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Speaker 4: media that it looks like we're done. It looks like we.

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Speaker 5: Have a deal.

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Speaker 1: The moon rose that they turned into April twenty second.

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Speaker 1: Elean was restless that night.

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Speaker 2: And his words to me were, I love you Allah,

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Speaker 2: I said, I love you too. And the other words

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Speaker 2: he said to my father was I am very scared.

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Speaker 2: Something's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Something did happen. Just after five am on that clear night,

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Speaker 1: the family heard a big pound at the door, a

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Speaker 1: pound that would change everything. A penny letter Mitz and

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Speaker 1: this is chess peace. Delian Gonzalez story a production of

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Speaker 1: Utudo Studios in partnership with Iheartsmichael Tura podcast Network. Before

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Speaker 1: that faithful night in a pro two thousand, the US

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Speaker 1: government had been talking with Alians Miami relatives for months.

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Speaker 5: There was a lot of negotiation over a long period

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Speaker 5: of time between people from Washington, DCA and attorneys and

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Speaker 5: those a whole cast of characters.

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Speaker 1: This is Jim Goldman, the Immigration and Naturalization Services director

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Speaker 1: in charge of Alliant's case. His agency was trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out how to reunite Alian with his father, but

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Speaker 1: Alian's Miami relatives wanted the government to agree to certain terms.

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Speaker 1: The relatives had proposed that a lean and the family

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Speaker 1: there Alian's father, Juamiel could join them and reunite with

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Speaker 1: until the whole thing was settled.

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Speaker 4: I think we owe it to them to government of

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Speaker 4: problem that they decided.

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Speaker 1: This is money. Yes again, one of the lawyers who

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Speaker 4: Some politician or some lawyer or some judge decide, but

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Speaker 4: let them make the decision.

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Speaker 1: According to Money, they were just waiting for the final

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Speaker 1: sign off from the government.

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Speaker 4: Things look like they're going to be okay.

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Speaker 1: And then at three am they heard back from the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General and some of the terms had changed, but

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Speaker 1: time was running out. You see, Money said that the

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Speaker 1: if they received a court order.

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Speaker 4: We understand if a court a judge is telling us

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Speaker 4: that this is what we have to do, we are

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Speaker 5: Not a problem.

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Speaker 1: But the Miami family had already ignored an official order

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Speaker 1: to turn the child in. Attorney General Janet Reno had

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Speaker 1: standard the deadline for them to turn Elan in several times. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: Every day there would negotiations, negotiations, and negotiations. Nothing seemed

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Speaker 1: While the talks with the family were ongoing, Jim Goldman

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Speaker 5: To execute a rescue and recovery operation.

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Speaker 1: For three months, his team put together the plan. The

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Speaker 1: government called it Operation Reunion.

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Speaker 5: The basic plan called for us to go to the

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Speaker 1: But the big question was with the Land's Miami relatives

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Speaker 5: We had what's called a breaching team, a team of

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Speaker 5: Mind you, this was a sophisticated process, a.

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Speaker 1: Plan with more than two hundred and fifty law enforcement

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Speaker 5: The plan was to take him from the home to

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Speaker 1: The helicopter ride would start the process to reunite with

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Speaker 1: The orders came, it was time to execute Operation Reunion.

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Speaker 1: Jim and his team took off. It was about five

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Speaker 1: in the morning on April twenty second. Soon he would

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Speaker 1: authorities praised themselves for how Alliance relatives might react. Just

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Speaker 1: after five in the morning, Ramon's Aul Sanchez was camped

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Speaker 6: I knew that if Alian was sent back, and I

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Speaker 1: Ramon was friends with the lawyers inside the house and

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Speaker 1: they had told him that negotiations were going well. Manidias.

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Speaker 1: Remember one of the lawyers said that the mediator told

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Speaker 1: him that night that Attorny General Duino was happy with

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Speaker 4: You're going to be happy with what she has to say,

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Speaker 4: that's what I want to hear. He said, but don't

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Speaker 1: Money stayed up waiting for confirmation of an agreement between

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Speaker 4: And then finally a very nervous call, very anxious call

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Speaker 4: from Aaron who says to me, I don't know what's happened.

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Speaker 1: Money was a stunt. In the week hours of the morning,

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Speaker 1: they learned the government had changed the neutral location in

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Speaker 1: Ileane's great uncle was not comfortable with.

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Speaker 4: You know, I got to get the best reaction from

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Speaker 1: Five minutes to decide the family would be willing to

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Speaker 1: peacefully surrender Ellen. Now, Money couldn't believe it. He woke

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Speaker 1: he heard commotion outside where Ramon was talking to other

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Speaker 6: Suddenly I see that the people looking, you know, their

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Speaker 1: Ramon immediately knew something big was about to happen.

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Speaker 5: We're coming great right now.

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Speaker 1: He'd been teaching the protesters something he called a human

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Speaker 6: Whenever I joined my two hands over my head, that

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Speaker 6: And I did that. I did the signal, and everybody

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Speaker 1: The federal agents came in too fast.

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Speaker 6: And I rushed inside and I stood in the door.

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Speaker 6: I was expecting for them to hand me a court order,

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Speaker 1: Mary Lacy's was in the house with Elan and other relatives.

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Speaker 2: You hear banging all over the door. You don't know

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Speaker 1: God for Bed.

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Speaker 2: We thought it was the Cuban government coming inside my house.

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Speaker 1: That big pound at the door was Jim Goldman. Jim

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Speaker 5: US Immigration special agents opened the door. We have a

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Speaker 5: Matters only got worse because they refused to open the door.

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Speaker 5: As I'm banging on the door and yelling, I could

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Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine that there was going to be guns

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Speaker 1: Here is Donato again, the man who rescued Elian and

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Speaker 3: And the next thing you know, I see Eli on

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Speaker 3: He's crying and I should have been the last person

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Speaker 3: I held them, and I'm hearing a battering. Ran at

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Speaker 5: I had no choice but to breach that door. They

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Speaker 1: As Donata tried to find a safer place with Lelyan,

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Speaker 1: the family lawyer, Money Yes watched the agents storm in,

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Speaker 4: Sudden, I found myself with a little red dots on

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Speaker 1: Money thought, was this really happening when just a few

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Speaker 1: hours ago an agreement seemed so close, when Money knew

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Speaker 1: Janet Reno from her days in Miami politics and had

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Speaker 1: The house was filled with shouts. Mary Lacy's squeamed at

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Speaker 2: I beg you, please don't let the boy see the guns. Please,

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Speaker 2: Don't let him see this, don't give.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Donato panic in the front of the house. He

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Speaker 3: So I'm thinking, I got to protect him. They're going

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Speaker 3: So I'm trying to look in the closet.

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Speaker 3: There, I was leaning up against this closet full of clothes.

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Speaker 3: I said, put your weapon down and I'll hand them

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Speaker 1: Alan Diaz, Alan Diaz, the AP photographer.

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Speaker 3: She goes, put your camera down, and Alan says no.

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Speaker 3: See this red little laser coming through. It is right

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Speaker 3: I mean, can you can't imagine a six year old

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Speaker 1: Then a woman agent appeared in the room where Donato

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Speaker 3: Then he's just clicking off pictures. I hand over Elion

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Speaker 3: to the lady and I heard the word bingo, and

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Speaker 3: I learned later bingo means that they got him, and

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Speaker 1: The officers fend the Donato off and rushed out, trying

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Speaker 3: Now you got to imagine there was craziness. All the

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Speaker 3: turned to violence in people's minds because they came there

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Speaker 1: Remember there were dozens of protesters camped outside of Alan's

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Speaker 5: We had to fight our way back to the three cars.

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Speaker 3: And they beat these people down, I mean not necessarily,

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Speaker 1: Jim says that the protesters outside started throwing objects at

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Speaker 5: If anybody was going to get hurt, it could have

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Speaker 5: been all on. They were throwing coolers and chairs, and

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Speaker 5: the crowd dispersed and away from the vehicles.

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Speaker 1: As federal agents rushed to get Elian in the car. Ramon,

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Speaker 1: the protester who had tried to stop the agents at

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Speaker 6: I was scared any conscience, and I saw his two

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Speaker 1: The crowd shouted at the agents as they got a

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Speaker 1: land in the car. You get out now. It was

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Speaker 1: shortly after five am. It had taken them three minutes

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Speaker 1: those three minutes would be remembered forever by many Cuban

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Speaker 1: Americans as the moment the US government seemed to betray

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Speaker 4: I mean, gotto mighty countries are at war with each other,

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Speaker 8: It took three minutes. In three minutes, six year old

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Speaker 8: Alien Gonzales, dressed in a T shirt, draped in fear,

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Speaker 8: was gone calculated chaos by heavily armed agents from US

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Speaker 8: Immigrations who sprayed anyone in their past with pepper straight.

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Speaker 5: It was forced met by an.

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Speaker 1: That Saturday morning before Eastern Wall to wall coverage of

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Speaker 1: the raid dominated global TV news.

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Speaker 9: April twenty second, two thousand Federal agents raid the Little

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Speaker 9: Havanah home of the Gonzales family, Elion Is seized.

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Speaker 10: It played NonStop on CNN and all these channels.

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Speaker 1: Alaferer, Cuban American historian.

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Speaker 10: And the image that was always shown was that iconic

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Speaker 10: Leian was being held by one of the fishermen who

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Speaker 10: had become close to the family.

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Speaker 1: Remember this was Alan Diaz, the Kuban American photographer with

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Speaker 1: the AP who was in the room with Donato and

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Speaker 1: Elian as agents storm in. By the way, Alan Diaz

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Speaker 1: had gotten close with a family who had agreed to

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Speaker 1: let him photograph should the raid ever take place. Even

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Speaker 1: Operation Reunion Attorney General Janet Reno said they had nothing

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Speaker 1: to hide. It's Allan DS's photograph that became part of

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Speaker 1: the mythmaking of the Elian case. And yet, like much

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Speaker 1: of this story, there is much more to it than

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Speaker 10: They're hiding. It looks like in a closet. They're against

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Speaker 10: and Elian looks avoid.

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Speaker 1: Those military looking guys were actually Border Patrol agents. In

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Speaker 1: the photo, one of the agents is in the hallway,

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Speaker 1: the other in the room with Donato a Alien. Both

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Speaker 1: agents are wearing olive green combat uniforms, black helmets and

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Speaker 1: and they are holding big black guns. In the photo,

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Speaker 1: forearm between the boy and the gun. All three of

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Speaker 1: them have their mouths open, seemingly shouting or crying, But

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Speaker 1: the Lion's face is the most memorable. His eyes squinted

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Speaker 1: in terror, like when you flinch bracing for something to

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Speaker 1: as if he's shrieking in panic. His tender age is

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Speaker 1: so obvious in this picture. He's a terrified little boy

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Speaker 1: This photo was instantly seared in American consciousness.

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Speaker 7: I think most of us were taken aback by the

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Speaker 1: This is Petrometo. He served as Assistant Secretary of State

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Speaker 7: It gives you a moment in time. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 7: that that's the way the whole raid took place. It

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Speaker 7: But that snapshot, that one snapshot, was what was plastered

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Speaker 1: Other photos of the raid surfaced, like the one where

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Speaker 1: the female agent carries Alyan to the car trying to

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Speaker 11: The image was shocking. It was an intense image. I

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Speaker 12: Knew that he had been severely traumatized when his other

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Speaker 12: I realized he was being taken away in the dark

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Speaker 12: of night from in effect, the new mother figure in

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Speaker 12: his life, Mighty Slaicius, And it was done in a

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Speaker 1: Ala Ferrer, the Cuan American historian Tulla's an anecdote that

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Speaker 1: shows how much people blamed Attorney General Janet Reno. Do

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Speaker 10: Oh, she was. She used to read the newspaper all

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Speaker 10: page picture in one day of Janet Reno, and she

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Speaker 10: took her scissors, her sewing scissors, and tore out the

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Speaker 10: eyes of Janet Reno. That's how she felt. I mean,

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Speaker 10: she was just and she you know, my mother was

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Speaker 1: But Attorney General Janet Reno said the operation was a success.

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Speaker 9: Juan Miguel Gonzalez wants to be with his son and

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Speaker 9: that will happen now. Law enforcement personnel were on the scene,

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Speaker 9: a very carefully timed law enforcement operation.

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Speaker 1: But her words meant nothing to Allian's family and to

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Speaker 1: most Miami Cubans, because Reno had been raised in Miami.

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Speaker 1: They thought she would have no better. They saw her

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Speaker 13: And you know what, Jennerno, even though if it would

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Speaker 13: the harm was done, and I was done to a

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Speaker 13: that the president allowed something like this because he has

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Speaker 1: Even in Cuba. The raid cost Shark. Here is her

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Speaker 14: I also remember the people in the streets, and I

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Speaker 14: was wondering myself, as a teenage Cuban, why the FBI

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Speaker 14: is fighting there its own people. Doesn't all America think

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Speaker 1: It wasn't the FBI that removed Ilian from the home,

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Speaker 1: by the way, but the point stood. Even Cubans in

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Speaker 1: Cuba were surprised by the US government. The raid was

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Speaker 1: an unusual moment for Cuba and the United States. For

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Speaker 1: something that aligned with the interests of the Kuban government.

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Speaker 1: The US had acted against Cuban exiles on American soil,

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Speaker 1: the US government. But to six year old Elean on

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Speaker 5: I recall Elien being in the helicopter and gie, I mean,

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Speaker 1: It was twilight at this point, and Elian looked out

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Speaker 5: He was like kind of overwhelmed, not in fear, but

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Speaker 1: Jim and Elian flew to Homestead Air Force Space just

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Speaker 1: outside of Miami. That's where a medical treeash unit evaluated

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Speaker 1: Elian once he was cleared, Jim and Elian boarded a

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Speaker 1: of Washington, d C, where Elian would finally be reunited

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Speaker 1: with his father.

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Speaker 5: We made small talk with him. We had some, you know,

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Speaker 5: kid items that he could occupy himself with. It's a

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Speaker 1: Recently I read a New York Times article about this flight.

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Speaker 1: The psychiatrist who was with Lean in the flight at

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Speaker 1: one point could not remember the Spanish word for a stepmother,

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Speaker 1: so he told Lean that he was going to see

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Speaker 1: his papa and his mama. When Elean heard the word mama,

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Speaker 1: his face changed, tension surfacing in his eyes, and then

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Speaker 1: Elean sat there quietly. He didn't cry, just like he

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Speaker 5: He looked out the window the whole time.

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Speaker 1: Here was Alean surviving another storm, and after that storm

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Speaker 1: would come the server lining Elian would finally be with

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Speaker 15: It was truly a sincere reunion, but they would still

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Speaker 15: be stuck in the US as Alien's Miami relatives tried

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Speaker 15: to get the Supreme Court underside.

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