Alan Diaz who was living in the house of Elian Gonzalez’s relatives at the time the photo took this image. The photograph went on to win to Pulitzer Prize.
This image shows six year old Elián Gonzalez during a raid in his relatives Miami home in 2000. The armed federal agents burst through the doors and confronted Elian Gonzalez and one of the men who helped rescue the boy from the shipwreck that he was in which claimed his mother Elizabet Broton Rodríguez’s life as well as 10 other Cuban refugees who were trying to reach Florida (CNN, 2002). The man who took the photograph went on to say, “the cry I heard that day I have never heard in my life” (CNN. 2015).
Elian’s parents, Juan Miguel González and Elizabet Broton Rodríguez, were both
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This looks like a very harsh action to take against such a young boy. This image was seen by many people and although the United States were co-operating with Castro they were carrying out his wishes in a unfitting manner when dealing with a child who has just lost his mother and is in a foreign country. Gonzalez has experienced a “magnificent’ life after returning to Cuba, Castro attended his 7th birthday party and he has surrounded him with body guards to this day. This makes Americans feel guilty about the embargo they placed on Cuba people. All of this made it appear as if it was the Americans fault that the Cuban people were suffering. America had put an embargo on Cuba and then gave limited Visas for the Cubans who wished to live in America. This made the Cubans feel like they had to other choice but to reach America using dangerous schemes, much like the one, which cost Elian Gonzalez’s mother her life. The Americans did not refuse the Cuban people as well as Elian’s fathers demand to send him home however they did so in an unfitting manner and that is what impacted them negatively in the long run. This is what led everyone to see them in a negative light as it appeared as the Americans were trying to convince a young boy to live separately from his