Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters NEW YORK -- Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions, has been nominated to serve in the island's National Assembly, the ...

After almost 20 hours of negotiations over four days, immigration officials decided to suspend threats to send Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba before appeals are exhausted in the 4-month-old custody ...

Months of angry rhetoric gave way to violence Saturday in Little Havana after federal agents raided the home of Elian Gonzalez's relatives and snatched the 6-year-old boy from the arms of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 podcast ...

The documentary Elián posits the story of 5-year-old Elián González, who was rescued off the coast of South Florida in 1999 after attempting to leave Cuba with his mother (who drowned) – along with ...

Elián González greets me with a smile and firm handshake. He is unassuming and low-key despite once being at the center of a bitter international custody battle involving two Cold War enemies.

Given all the genuinely weighty events of the intervening years, from 9/11 to the Iraq War and the election of our first black President, it’s hard to imagine that a decade ago I and so many other ...

H A V A N A, Nov. 23 -- Photogenic 6-year-old Cuban ElianGonzalez has been out of public sight for months now andmemories of his colossal custody battle are fading even here. But, one year after his ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the Miami Herald on April 23, 2000. Armed with automatic weapons and firing occasional rounds of tear gas, federal agents seized Elian Gonzalez ...