When the five-year-old was rescued off the Florida coast in 1999 he became the center of an international custody battle that pitted family members against one another and tested U.S. foreign ...

On Thanksgiving morning, 1999, a Cuban boy was found in the Florida Straits, alone on an inner tube. Elián Gonzalez, then only five years old, never stood a chance at a normal life.His story ...

Elián Gonzalez plays with his cousin Lazarito on the shoulders of Donato Dalrymple, the fisherman who found Elián floating in an inner tube off the coast of Florida, at Elian’s relatives ...

Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy ...

This history fueled by the thirst for freedom is only a portion of what Elián González carried with him when he arrived in Miami in 1999. But no one attached that history to the depictions of ...

Elian Gonzalez, rescued from an inner tube in 2000 at age 6 and returned from Miami to Cuba after custody battle, is all grown up.

Elian Gonzalez: 25 Years Later 28:14. 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 ...

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 Gonzalez would like to return to the United States, he tells ABC News in an exclusive interview. "To the American people, first I say thank you for the love they give me," Gonzalez ...

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 ...

Elián González was a poster child of U.S.-Cuba diplomatic conflict in 1999. Now he wants to improve the two countries relationship as a top official.

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 ...