On Father's Day, Cuba's Elian Gonzalez announces he's set to become a dad
Source: CNN
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
Updated 2034 GMT (0434 HKT) June 21, 2020
(CNN)Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy whose custody case sparked diplomatic tensions and attracted intense media coverage, will soon be a father himself, he announced on Facebook on Sunday.
Gonzalez, 26, made the announcement on Father's Day and said his own father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who brought him back from the US to Cuba, was his inspiration as he prepared to become a dad for the first time.
"Soon I will begin to understand what it means to be a father," Elian Gonzalez wrote on his Facebook page. "But what I know up until now is my father and I hope to do it as half as well as he did with me."
In a message to CNN on Sunday, Gonzalez said he and his fiancée were expecting to have a baby girl later this summer.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1999, a 5-year-old Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast. His mother and nine others drowned after the rickety boat they were traveling in capsized while they attempted to reach the United States from Cuba.
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Elian, his fiancée, and beside her, his half brother, who was the toddler who appeared in photos with his father, his step-mother when they came to the US to retrieve the little boy they wanted back in his home, in Cuba, with his many cousins, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles, and 4 grandparents. The two younger boys, of course, were born after he returned to Cuba, at long last.
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