Gen. Omar Tchiani spoke on state television as the head of a transitional leadership in the West African country, two days after his troops detained the elected president. By Elian Peltier and ...

By Elian Peltier and Omar Hama Saley Elian Peltier reported from Dakar, Senegal, and Omar Hama Saley from Niamey, Niger. Aug. 6, 2023 Stocking up on rice, fleeing the capital by bus or vowing to ...

Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez speaks to the press as he arrives to pay tribute to Cuba's late President Fidel Castro at the Jose Marti Memorial in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba ...

Elian now lives with his father Juan Miguel in Cuba "He's just a normal little boy" - is what almost everyone in this small, dusty Cuban town will tell you when you ask them about Elian Gonzalez. A ...

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 ...

"Every once in a while in our conversations when some of us get together we talk about Elian and the failures of how the whole episode was handled." Coral Gables City Commissioner Kirk Menendez ...

Elián González made headlines in 1999 as the boy found floating on an inner tube near Florida shores and became the center of an international custody battle between the U.S. and Cuba. Now 29 ...

Elián González, the Cuban national who set off an international custody battle as a child when he was found floating alone in the Florida straits in 1999, is about to become a member of the ...

Editor's note: As Miami marks the 25th anniversary of the day the United States sent Elián González back to Cuba to live with his father, New Times is highlighting this 2020 essay by local ...