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Elian Gonzalez, Used as Prop by Castro, To Join Cuba’s Sham Legislature

Thirty years ago, Cuba’s dictatorship seized on the chance to hide its grim realities behind an innocent child.

Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, right, as government officials search his relative's home at Miami on April 22, 2000.
Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, right, as government officials search his relative's home at Miami on April 22, 2000. AP/Alan Diaz, file