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Monday, April 24, 2000
jCuban-Americans Protest Elian Raid
Federal agents took the
i ' Cuban boy from his family
in Miami early Saturday,
nationwide debate.
Associated Press
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MIAMI - Easter -one of the holiest
of days in Litde Havana and the rest of
r ‘the Christian world - found Marta
'■Rodriguez praying for a little boy she
knows only from a distance but, like
many, calls by his first name,
bo “Pobre Elian,” the 71-year-old Cuban
‘immigrant said after Mass at St. John
_ Bosco Church, where Elian’s great-uncle
and cousins have attended services.
“He should never have been treated
jhis way," she said in a grandmotherly
tone. “My heart is broken.”
So it was for many Miami Cubans
life without the 6-year-old
vbov reunited with his father in
Washington after a swift and stunning
pre-dawn Saturday raid by federal
For the first time in five months, Elian
was gone from Miami.
And it was mosdy quiet in Little
Havana, which had been the site of
weeks of protests for the first time in
days.
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At the home of the boy’s Miami rel
atives, a place once so overrun with
journalists and protesters that it was
dubbed Camp Elian, bystanders dressed
in their Sunday best stopped briefly to
look. A bouquet of flowers was stuffed
into the chain-link gate used by the
agents a day earlier.
There was a brief skirmish Sunday
afternoon when two young women car
ried signs supporting Attorney General
Janet Reno’s order to raid.
“Not here! Not here!” the protesters
yelled, trying to hit one of the women
and pulling her hair as she was escorted
away by security guards.
During protests that lasted into
Sunday morning, police clad in riot gear
arrested more than 350 people and
cleared away thousands more demon
strators from Litde Havana. Protesters
set more than 200 fires, burning mosdy
tires and trash, but there were few seri
ous injuries.
At St Michael the Archangel Church,
another Roman Catholic church in
Litde Havana, parishioners held radios
to their ears as Spanish-language radio
buzzed with talk of a strike Tuesday. If
the idea catches on - there are 800,000
Cuban Americans in the area - it could
shut down much of Miami.
Postal worker Nick Perez Caurel lis
tened to the announcements from his
home a few miles away and vowed to
take part.
“I haven’t missed a day of work in six
years. But in my own peaceful way, I
will show my feelings,” said Perez
Caurel, whose parents sent him from
Cuba to the United States in 1962 when
he was 12 years old.
The former Boy Scout and Vietnam
veteran also showed his displeasure
Saturday when he came home from
work, pulled an American flag from his
hallway closet and hung it upside down
in his front yard with a black scarf
pinned to it.
“We’ve always
hung that flag
proudly - on the
Fourth of July,
days like that,”
said his wife, Rosi
Perez Caurel.
Now, Rosi, also
a Cuban immi
grant, says she’s
not feeling particu-
“Pobre Elian.
He should never
have been treated this way.
My heart is broken. ”
71-Year-Old Cuban Immigrant
At the Miami Relatives’ Church
larly American.
“There is a saying in Spanish, ‘Te
mastican pero no te tragan’ - they chew
you, but they don’t swallow,” she said.
“That’s how it feels.”
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agent with his hand extended to grab a
crying Elian. Some versions replaced
the faces of federal agents with those of
Reno, who gave the go-ahead for the
raid, and Cuban President Fidel Castro.
A poster-sized reproduction attached
to the Gonzalez family’s front door
included this label: “Federal Child
Abuse.”
Not everyone in Little Havana was
upset.
“I’m in agreement that his father is
his only family,” said 77-year-old
Virginia Escalona, pausing before
adding, “Well, his
grandmothers,
too.”
As she stood
outside on her
apartment stair
well, her husband
came out to try to
quiet his wife, one
of a few people
becoming braver
about a view that
had been all but squelched in the neigh
borhood.
“Are you crazy ?” Escalona’s husband
said. “You don’t have to talk to the
whole world.”
She shooed him away.
“I say what I like,” she said. “This is
America, no?”
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