Speaker 1: When Elian made it to Miami, I was twelve years
Speaker 1: old living in Cuba. My younger brother, Juan Carlos, who
Speaker 1: we called Kwankey, was eight, kuanky like me. Remember, Alian's
Speaker 1: face was everywhere, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Of course, and they made shirts and posters and all
Speaker 2: over the school.
Speaker 3: There was the flavor of the month.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Elian's story was more than just the flavor of the month. Actually,
Speaker 1: it was a national cause. Before Elian was even rescued,
Speaker 1: his family in Cuba had contacted the Communist party in
Speaker 1: his hometown seeking help. That's how Fidel Castro found out
Speaker 1: about Ilian. The Cuban government sent a message to the US.
Speaker 1: The day after Elian was found, Tregress and Mino Superba
Speaker 1: in Cuba returned the boy to his father in Cuba.
Speaker 1: In the days that followed, Strum met with Ilian's father
Speaker 1: and became increasingly angry. In film and check, he said,
Speaker 1: the US has kidnapped Elian Gonzalez.
Speaker 5: The opinion shut down where.
Speaker 1: It sounded a little like a threat, but the ominous
Speaker 1: stone in Castro's boys escaped my kid brother. He was
Speaker 1: more concerned that he could not watch his regular cartoons
Speaker 1: because of the constant news about Eliang.
Speaker 6: They were giving a whole spill of bring back Alian
Speaker 6: at that time.
Speaker 3: I'm a kid that he really didn't care about it.
Speaker 1: I did not care about cartoons. I was just a
Speaker 1: regular nerdy preteen, dividing my time between poetry and the
Speaker 1: Spice Girls. The year before, my father had fled Cuba
Speaker 1: for Miami. He was trying to escape the poverty and
Speaker 1: instability of our country. I didn't know when I will
Speaker 1: see him again. Much of this time in my life
Speaker 1: is blurry, but there is one sharp memory. I'm in
Speaker 1: front of the US headquarters in Cuba at a government
Speaker 1: mandated protest that I was required to attend.
Speaker 7: Screaming loudly.
Speaker 1: Bring back Ilian to Cuba. This memory surprises me now
Speaker 1: because frankly, I don't remember what I actually thought of Elia,
Speaker 1: like I don't remember actually having an opinion, and yet
Speaker 1: here I was at this protest, screaming from the bottom
Speaker 1: of my heart. I have come to realize I was
Speaker 1: not screaming for Elian. I was screaming for my dad,
Speaker 1: screaming in frustration that, like Eleane, the same strip of
Speaker 1: ocean separated me from my father. I did not understand
Speaker 1: or really care about the political forces that had caused
Speaker 1: or separation. I only knew that I missed him, that
Speaker 1: I needed him, that I was angry that I could
Speaker 1: not be with him, and so I.
Speaker 6: Screamed, no family issue had to go through what we went,
Speaker 6: just because I'm looking for a better future.
Speaker 7: My brother told me this recently.
Speaker 1: I agree, but we are Cuban, and to be Cuban
Speaker 1: is so often to be separated from their family. Unpenny
Speaker 1: later meets and this is chess peace. The Elian Gonzalez
Speaker 1: Story a production of Putuda Studios in partnership with Ihearts
Speaker 1: Michael Tuda podcast Network. On December sixth, nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: Elian Gonzalez celebrated his sixth birthday in Miami. It was
Speaker 1: just a week and a half after he had been
Speaker 1: rescued from the sea. He had been staying with distant
Speaker 1: relatives on his dad's side, his great uncle Lasara Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: and Lazaro's twenty one year old daughter Mary Leasis.
Speaker 8: How did he survive by himself when he's only five?
Speaker 8: And the only thing I could probably say that it's
Speaker 8: just a miracle.
Speaker 7: People said.
Speaker 1: She became like a mother figure for Elian. She cared
Speaker 1: for him, making him chocolate milk, something that was so
Speaker 1: luxury in Cuba and that Elean had quickly come to love.
Speaker 1: One journalist reported that Mary Leasis would say to Elian,
Speaker 1: mere Alliancito, your grandmothers cannot make you this in Cua.
Speaker 8: I just want him to be wherever he wants to
Speaker 8: be comfortable.
Speaker 1: Marit Less quickly became the family spokesperson. Unlike her father,
Speaker 1: she spoke English well because she had been raised in
Speaker 1: the US. She was young, passionate about the lean, and
Speaker 1: comfortable in front of the cameras.
Speaker 7: I asked him, do you want to go back? You
Speaker 7: mean you know you want to stay here?
Speaker 9: And he said, I don't want to go back.
Speaker 1: She and her father, last Settle, believed Elian's mother died
Speaker 1: trying to give him safety and freedom in the US,
Speaker 1: and they were not alone. Cuban Americans would show up
Speaker 1: at their house demand in the US government let Elean
Speaker 1: stay in the US.
Speaker 7: Yeahmanda.
Speaker 1: People would say it would be a shame to send
Speaker 1: the boy back to communism and hunger in Cuba. At
Speaker 1: his birthday at a local park, Elien was given many
Speaker 1: gifts and a huge birthday cake, but that was an
Speaker 1: Alien's only birthday party in Cuba, his school organized a
Speaker 1: celebration in his absence with a special guest, Fidel Gastro
Speaker 1: himself stopped by. He wore his typical olive green military uniform.
Speaker 1: Alien's father, Juamiel, spoke to his son by phone that
Speaker 1: day to wish him a happy birthday, and they spoke
Speaker 1: as if Alien will be back in Cuba soon.
Speaker 10: Well, that went to Hedi. Really.
Speaker 1: There were protests in Havana marking the week of Alian's birthday.
Speaker 1: Cubans chanted down with imperialism, socialism, or death. But the
Speaker 1: protest in Cuba did not change Elean status in the US.
Speaker 1: His future was still in limbo. His Miami relatives had
Speaker 1: begun the process to file for asylum for Elian. At
Speaker 1: the time, Cubans were guaranteed entry to the US if
Speaker 1: they made it to the US soil. But Alian didn't
Speaker 1: technically meet these requirements.
Speaker 11: Because he was rescued at sea and never made it
Speaker 11: to the shoreline. He was a wet foot Cuban national.
Speaker 1: This is Bernie Permurter, professor of law at the University
Speaker 1: of Miami. He's referring to an unusual American policy at
Speaker 1: the time known as bisco pimojus or wet foot dryfoot.
Speaker 1: It allowed any Cuban to legally stay in the US
Speaker 1: as long as they made it to the American shore
Speaker 1: after crossing the ocean from Cuba, literally stepping on dry land.
Speaker 1: That's the dry foot. But Cubans who were captured or
Speaker 1: rescued at sea by the cost guard, they were not
Speaker 1: permitted entry to.
Speaker 7: The United States. That's the wet foot.
Speaker 11: The federal government had taken legal custody of Elianis. I
Speaker 11: said he didn't reach the shore, so he did not
Speaker 11: have the benefit of dry feet landing on the beaches
Speaker 11: of Florida.
Speaker 1: So Alien's status under immigration law was not certain, and
Speaker 1: another immigration policy in the US at that time said
Speaker 1: that only a parent could apply for asylum for their child.
Speaker 1: So to immigration officials, Alien's Miami relatives didn't have the
Speaker 1: authority to decide the boy's fate.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure I understand what their rights are. These
Speaker 4: were distant relatives.
Speaker 1: This is Jim Goldman, former special agent with US Immigration
Speaker 1: and Naturalization Services or ions. We shall say in unusual circumstances,
Speaker 1: the law does allow the government to assign a guardian
Speaker 1: to one unaccompanied child, even if there are distant relatives
Speaker 1: or not relatives, but in this case, the government was
Speaker 1: insistent that there was no need to since Elian's father
Speaker 1: wanted him back.
Speaker 4: I think the biological father has more right to make
Speaker 4: decisions for his child at the time was, you know,
Speaker 4: five and six years old, more so than anybody.
Speaker 1: Jim thinks this case should have been open and shot, but.
Speaker 4: It became a hot topic because I think the system
Speaker 4: allowed for it to become a hot topic.
Speaker 7: He's right.
Speaker 8: Tensions between the United States and Cuba get hotter every
Speaker 8: day six year old Cuban refugee Ilian Gonzales remains in
Speaker 8: this country.
Speaker 1: The American media system jumped on Alian's story.
Speaker 12: Cuban men, women, and children protested on the streets of
Speaker 12: by the thousands last night. It was the largest turnout
Speaker 12: so far at the third night of protest, orchestrated by
Speaker 12: Fidel Castro.
Speaker 1: It became the biggest story in the country at a
Speaker 1: time when networks competed for wall to world news covers.
Speaker 13: It happens at the same time that we have the
Speaker 13: modern media machine being created, the twenty four hour news cycle,
Speaker 13: the dying of network news, the expansion of cable news
Speaker 13: the need for content.
Speaker 1: Go back and look at some of the news archives
Speaker 1: and it does start to fill at times like Elean
Speaker 1: was treated like content. There were cameras always stuck in
Speaker 1: Ilian outside the Miami home, reporters trying to catch a
Speaker 1: look of him playing ball, being.
Speaker 7: A little boy.
Speaker 14: Relatives of Elian Gonzalez say they saw a different side
Speaker 14: of the six year old, a boy simply filled with
Speaker 14: joy and happiness.
Speaker 1: Reporters tried to capture sure every detail of Alian's introduction
Speaker 1: to American culture, like when he went to Disney World
Speaker 1: for the first time, where he got a personal hug
Speaker 1: and a baseball hut autograph for Nana Masi Alamenos came
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse himself.
Speaker 14: But Ellian showed some lingering signs of his Thanksgiving ordeal
Speaker 14: and rescue at sea when he went on the It's
Speaker 14: a Small World water rid.
Speaker 1: And the interview request kept coming. Diane Sawyer had a
Speaker 1: playdate with Lean on camera.
Speaker 4: It was probably the biggest media item in the United States,
Speaker 4: if not the world at the time.
Speaker 9: He would go to a party, you would go to
Speaker 9: a restaurant, you would see your family. The talk the
Speaker 9: main subject was Ellian, you know what's going to happen
Speaker 9: to that boy.
Speaker 1: Alina Mayo Assay is a television news bra a seasoned
Speaker 1: news anchor who covered Miami's biggest stories for decades. She
Speaker 1: says nothing at the time could compare to the appeal
Speaker 1: of Alien story.
Speaker 7: It was unprecedented.
Speaker 9: It was our headline story practically every day. It was
Speaker 9: before Alian and after Alian. It definitely marked a line
Speaker 9: and the story and the history of the Cuban exile
Speaker 9: in the United States, especially in Miami.
Speaker 7: But in Cuba.
Speaker 1: The US media frenzy seemed to make Fidel Castro even
Speaker 1: more upset, and soon Castro will send another stern message.
Speaker 1: We turned the boy in seventy two hours. Fidel's message
Speaker 1: to the US was clear, returned the boy in three.
Speaker 7: Days, only not too el Primian.
Speaker 1: So that the pains of for an on trauma Dipoe
Speaker 1: and his family does not go a mini longer, he said,
Speaker 1: and his words were in the only ominous move. Castro
Speaker 1: stationed several dozen Cuban soldiers outside of the US Government
Speaker 1: Intersection office in Havana. This is the headquarters where I
Speaker 1: remember attending government sponsor protests for Elian. I remember the
Speaker 1: tension in the air, the vague sense that there was
Speaker 1: something biggest stake here, something with a lot of biggers.
Speaker 1: To understand why Land's case became such a big deal,
Speaker 1: you had to understand the complicated relationship between Cuba and
Speaker 1: the United States. Let's start in the early fifties. At
Speaker 1: this time, Cuba was ruled by Fulhenzioatista, who was once elected,
Speaker 1: but whose government had become actually a military dictatorship.
Speaker 10: Six years of surface pastparity and government corruption, of retression
Speaker 10: and police brutality, right explosive discontent.
Speaker 1: Mattista was friendly to US interests, allowing American companies like
Speaker 1: Coca Cola and United Fruit to own a giant amount
Speaker 1: of Cuban land. Workers struggled to survive on low wages
Speaker 1: and oppressive conditions. This inequality ripened the country for the
Speaker 1: ideals of Fidel Castro's revolution.
Speaker 10: Hubert's Fidel Castro emerged triumphant after two years a guerrilla
Speaker 10: warfare against the Batista regime. A revolution that began with
Speaker 10: Castro of fugitive ended with the find of dictator for
Speaker 10: Cenzio Batista and the entry into Havana of rebel forces
Speaker 10: to be acclaimed.
Speaker 4: By the city.
Speaker 1: He and his fighters including a john Argentinian doctor named
Speaker 1: Erneto che Evara, eventually overthrew a Vista and his government.
Speaker 1: Castro and his men were the underdogs. The uprising had
Speaker 1: begun with just eighteen men in the mountains of La
Speaker 1: Sierra Maestra, and it had spread to the whole island.
Speaker 1: At first, the US was not alarmed.
Speaker 8: Now, when Fidel Castro's fighting to depose Battista, he's not
Speaker 8: calling himself communist. Many of the people who were in
Speaker 8: his movement, which was called the twenty sixth of July Movement,
Speaker 8: were young people who were ardently anti communists.
Speaker 1: This is Ala Ferrer, the Cuban American history professor at
Speaker 1: Princeton you heard from in episode one.
Speaker 8: But they believed in deposing Batista. They believed in acting
Speaker 8: against government corruption.
Speaker 1: By nineteen sixty, the new government approved laws that banned
Speaker 1: all foreign ownership of Cuban land, banishing American companies from
Speaker 1: the island and nationalizing their businesses. His government also confiscated
Speaker 1: the line of Ques, who held more than one thousand acres.
Speaker 1: Even Castro's own mother was apparently outraged that her son
Speaker 1: had confiscated their family estate. Castro redistributed this line to
Speaker 1: workers or statecomings.
Speaker 8: They start enacting social reforms like the urban reform, cutting rents,
Speaker 8: and with all these laws that they're passing, they're getting
Speaker 8: enormous amounts of support.
Speaker 1: Some of that support came from my own grandparents, who
Speaker 1: got the chance to buy for almost nothing the apartment
Speaker 1: that they were renting before the revolution. It was the
Speaker 1: same apartment where I was raised with my mother thirty
Speaker 1: years after that. Not everyone felt like my grandparents.
Speaker 8: Obviously, the people whose land is being taken away are
Speaker 8: not necessarily going to support.
Speaker 1: But Castro was well liked in Cuba, not just by
Speaker 1: my grandparents but by many other Cubans.
Speaker 5: So the tor policies in Cuba, doctor Castro, are leading
Speaker 5: to two conditions of great economic difficulty.
Speaker 7: Is this so everybody working?
Speaker 5: Everybody happy?
Speaker 1: In this nineteen sixty one BBC interview, Castro is young, smiling,
Speaker 1: easy going. The journalist wrote that Castro charmed and impressed
Speaker 1: many reporters. When Castro came to power, he promised democratic
Speaker 1: elections will come as soon as the new government stabilized,
Speaker 1: but by the early sixties that hadn't happened. The Cubans
Speaker 1: who left for the United States after Castro had taken
Speaker 1: their land.
Speaker 7: So Castro not for a revolutionary but a despot.
Speaker 5: Some people say, some of your Cuban enemies, says yes,
Speaker 5: people in Miami Americans say that you started a revolution
Speaker 5: to bring in democracy and you have not done so.
Speaker 1: In this part of the video, when the reporter mentions
Speaker 1: ones in Miami, Castro gets a son Ricita his marks
Speaker 1: a little.
Speaker 7: Do you believe that there is no democracy here?
Speaker 15: I'm ensure there is more your question than that.
Speaker 5: In the United States, the most free main man you
Speaker 5: can't find in all America is the Cuban.
Speaker 1: Ada says that in a survey from February of nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty nine, about ninety one percent of the respondents said
Speaker 1: that the new government was doing everything perfectly well, but
Speaker 1: Washington didn't feel this way.
Speaker 8: Here is Ada again, The President and senators and congressmen
Speaker 8: were saying, what is Cuba doing? It's turning communists.
Speaker 1: By nineteen sixty two, the US had cut diplomatic ties
Speaker 1: with Cuba and declared and embargo forbidding American trade with Cuba,
Speaker 1: hoping to create shortages and hunger on the island to
Speaker 1: destitlize Castro's new government. This time Castro had been turning
Speaker 1: into the Soviet Union for help and trade.
Speaker 15: What the United States and self respect can endure that
Speaker 15: lemit has now been reached.
Speaker 1: The CIA also secretly trained some fourteen hundred Cubans who
Speaker 1: had led for the US to invade Cuba at the
Speaker 1: Way of Peaks Lava Yedecuccinos, believing the attack could kickstart
Speaker 1: an uprising against Castro. But the attended invasion failed miserably.
Speaker 1: I remember learning in our history classes in Cuba about
Speaker 1: these early days of Castro's rule, how he created new systems,
Speaker 1: free health care and free education, improving the quality of
Speaker 1: life for ordinary Cubans. I remember some people in Cuba
Speaker 1: saying that yes, their life improved at the beginning, and
Speaker 1: they supported Castro, pretty convinced that great years were ahead.
Speaker 1: But what I didn't learn in school was that from
Speaker 1: the very beginning, the censorin and self Censorina started, and
Speaker 1: Cuba quickly became a place with almost no freedom of expression.
Speaker 1: Under this new regime, dissidents were often imprisoned and then
Speaker 1: thanks got warse.
Speaker 8: It's a period that follows the fall of the Soviet
Speaker 8: Union and state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Cuban
Speaker 8: economy just tanked almost from one day to the next.
Speaker 8: There was the joke of you know, Cuba, but it
Speaker 8: wasn't really a joke. You know, Cuba just has three problems.
Speaker 8: You know, there's a union and mercilla, comedia breakfast, lunch
Speaker 8: and dinner. And everywhere I went, the constant refrain was
Speaker 8: noise fasci. Everyone had the reservation meant that, and it
Speaker 8: was just this constant struggle to live and to survive.
Speaker 1: Over the decades, waves of Cuban's left the island for
Speaker 1: the US flights and votes. There were the fourteen thousand
Speaker 1: children who were put on planes to Miami in fear
Speaker 1: that they will be taken away from their families and
Speaker 1: put in communist inductrination camps. That never happened, by the way.
Speaker 8: Then the next wave was nineteen eighty and the Mario
Speaker 8: boat lived in which one hundred and twenty five thousand
Speaker 8: people came in the space of about you know, five months.
Speaker 15: Even less, the president has literally opened the floodgates, placing
Speaker 15: no limitations on the number of Cubans entering the United States.
Speaker 1: A decade after Mariel, with the fall of the Soviet Union,
Speaker 1: Cuba entered the years of severe scarcity that I remember
Speaker 1: from my childhood. The Cuban government named it the Special
Speaker 1: Period or Elperio Pessie.
Speaker 8: Then there was the Raftro crisis in ninety four, which
Speaker 8: I think was about thirty five thousand people in the
Speaker 8: space of a few months. But in all those years
Speaker 8: there were people leaving.
Speaker 1: Most of the time could not leave Cuba together. They
Speaker 1: would decide who had a better chance to leave, save,
Speaker 1: send money, and work hard to help the rest of
Speaker 1: the family on the island. There are many families like
Speaker 1: mine and Aliens where a parent or a child comes
Speaker 1: without the rest of their family.
Speaker 8: Family separation is, you know, was a part of the
Speaker 8: story of the Cuban Revolution from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: Family separation has become souci a part of the Cuban
Speaker 1: cultural DNA that is actually pretty difficult to meet a
Speaker 1: Cuban who has not been touched by it. And who
Speaker 1: you blame for that separation depends on what side of
Speaker 1: the small strip of ocean between Cuba and Florida you
Speaker 1: are on. Alien's story flooded every corner of life in Cuba.
Speaker 1: I remember not just attending but watching the protests in
Speaker 1: Havana demanding Elian be brought home. So those Harold Cardinas
Speaker 1: quean journalist and political analyst.
Speaker 2: People in Havanah had to rally all the time, and
Speaker 2: it's impressive when you look at the images of the
Speaker 2: Malecon in Havana next to the sea full of probably
Speaker 2: millions of Cubans. That is an impressive thing. That showed
Speaker 2: the capacity that the Kivan government had back then to
Speaker 2: rally people and to bring them together for a cause.
Speaker 2: I am sure that many of them were strongly encouraged
Speaker 2: in their jobs to join those rallies, but others were
Speaker 2: going because they really believe in it.
Speaker 7: I felt this too.
Speaker 1: Sure there were people there because the protests were mandated,
Speaker 1: but I also saw people who were truly calling for
Speaker 1: his return, outraged that the boy was being kept from
Speaker 1: his father.
Speaker 2: Obviously, at that age, it's hard to distinguish between the
Speaker 2: real fight of a kid that deserves to be with
Speaker 2: his father and the propaganda and how the governments also
Speaker 2: used people citizens for propaganda purposes. So as a child
Speaker 2: it was hard to distinguish the propaganda.
Speaker 7: On both sides.
Speaker 1: In Cuba, I remember hearing a lot about how Alien's
Speaker 1: father had never agreed that Ilian could be taken to
Speaker 1: the United States. How the US was keeping a boy
Speaker 1: away from the rightful parent, another example of the evil
Speaker 1: US Empire. But for Cubans in Florida, this case was
Speaker 1: about freedom and saving a boy from oppression.
Speaker 15: Many of the people, the Qubit Americans in Miami identified
Speaker 15: with the mother and her motivations for doing what she
Speaker 15: did and the fact she lost her life in trying.
Speaker 5: To do this.
Speaker 1: This is former Assistant Secretary of State Petromero. But this
Speaker 1: idea that Alien's mother had died trying to reach freedom
Speaker 1: for her son is not as black and white. There
Speaker 1: is some evidence that Alien's mother was going to the
Speaker 1: United States not for freedom, but to follow her boyfriend.
Speaker 16: They truly were the Cuban Romeo and Juliet Well.
Speaker 7: She was reputting the story.
Speaker 1: Journalist and Louis bardak So a five page love letter
Speaker 1: between the couple, and she and others are convinced that
Speaker 1: love was the real motive.
Speaker 16: The reason the mother was on the boat was because
Speaker 16: of her great love for Rafa Muneerum. If Rafa had
Speaker 16: said we're going to Iceland or we're going to Columbia,
Speaker 16: I think she.
Speaker 1: Would have gone with him, regardless of why she got
Speaker 1: on the boat. What do you should know is people
Speaker 1: either identified with Lilian's mom and the US or Alien's
Speaker 1: dad and Cuba.
Speaker 15: Everybody can understand, you know, a child who's a Cuban
Speaker 15: child taken away from you know, the bosom of the
Speaker 15: motherland and all of that stuff, and you know we
Speaker 15: want him back. And yeah, I mean it was it
Speaker 15: was great for propaganda.
Speaker 1: I see how Alian was used by both sides to
Speaker 1: boaster ideology. But mostly when I see Alian, I see
Speaker 1: US Cubans, people who have experienced family separation over seven decades.
Speaker 1: I see my family, my brother Juankey, who now lives
Speaker 1: in Miami and works as a SWAT paramedic and firefighter.
Speaker 1: Some people thought that you look like Ilian yourself.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that was my nickname on Fire Academy when
Speaker 3: I was eighteen, or my English pretty much up. But
Speaker 3: back then it was pretty bad, and that was my
Speaker 3: victim of Fire Academy, Alion Gonzales, you are the littlefees million.
Speaker 7: It is true my brother does look like Alan.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why it's been easier for me to imagine Elean,
Speaker 1: not as a headline, not as a piece of geopolitics
Speaker 1: or history, or even as propaganda. No, I see Elean
Speaker 1: as someone who once was a boy in a new
Speaker 1: and unknown country without his mom.
Speaker 7: Or his dad.
Speaker 1: And I know the whole that creates in your heart
Speaker 1: to be separated from a parent. Forces greater than you
Speaker 1: keeping you from them, countries and their policies, politicians and
Speaker 1: their aims, reporters and their deadlines. That's all in the periphery.
Speaker 1: At the center, at the heart of Alian's journey is
Speaker 1: that he was a boy who longed for his parents
Speaker 1: like I once did. Next time on Chess Peace, Miami,
Speaker 1: Cubans and Ilian's relatives start getting angry.
Speaker 4: Elean comes Fidel hasn't gone down.
Speaker 10: Everybody is not happy about that, and by God, Fidel's
Speaker 10: not going to get this trophy.
Speaker 1: And the battle for Elian starts breaking up a family.
Speaker 7: Chess piece.
Speaker 1: The Elian Gonzales Story is a production of Utuda Studios
Speaker 1: in partnership with Iheart's Michael Turda podcast Network. This show
Speaker 1: is written and reported by me Pennileea Medz with Maria Garcia,
Speaker 1: Cold Rockwell and Tasha Sandoval. Our editor is Maria Garcia.
Speaker 1: Additional editing by Marlon Bishop or. Senior producer is Nicole Rockwell.
Speaker 1: Our associate producers are Tasha Sandoval and Elisabeth Loental Torres.
Speaker 1: Sound designed by Jacob Rossatti and our intern is Evelin
Speaker 1: Fajardo Alvarez. Our senior production manager is Jessica Elis, with
Speaker 1: production supports from Nancy Trujillo and Francis Poon.
Speaker 7: Mixing by Stephanie.
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Levo and credits music from Los aceos Or. Executive
Speaker 1: producers are Marlon Bishop and Maria Garcia. Legal review by
Speaker 1: Neil Rossini. This episode was recorded in part at Dynamica
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