Want to Escort Him to Miami for Family Reunification
WASHINGTON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- An uncle and cousin of Elian Gonzalez's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, are flying to Washington, D.C., this morning to seek a meeting with Juan Miguel and plead with him to return with them to Miami to be reunified with his son and family.
Delfin Gonzalez and Alfredo Martell, Juan Miguel's uncle and cousin, respectively, boarded USAir flight #2732 this morning in Fort Lauderdale and are scheduled to land at Dulles International Airport at 12:58 p.m. Both know Juan Miguel personally. Mr. Martell, roughly the same age as Juan
Miguel, arrived in the U.S. from Cuba approximately one year ago only.
"We have been asking for Juan Miguel to come to Miami since this entire ordeal began," said Jorge Mas, Chairman of the CANF. "He will be welcomed warmly and with great sympathy because we all know the great pressure he is under by the Castro regime. The bottom line is that
Elian's best interest demands that this close family-divided by Castro like so many others-be reunited under a banner of freedom, free from coercion, to determine the most positive outcome for this little boy that has been through so much."
SOURCE Cuban American National Foundation
CO: Cuban American National Foundation
ST: District of Columbia, Florida, Cuba
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SU: HSP
04/07/2000 11:51 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com |