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Is little Elian just a pawn in an international business scheme?
By Charley Reese
Columnist
Mash almost any of America's foreign-policy postules and what will ooze out is
big business in pursuit of money. It now seems that even little Elian Gonzalez
has become a pawn in an international business scheme.
By the time you read this, some outcome may have occurred. Nevertheless what
follows is important background. All of the information comes from the Archer
Daniels Midland Shareholders Watch Committee.
In the fall of 1995, ADM's chairman, Dwayne Andreas, met with Fidel Castro for
dinner in New York. In July 1996, Andreas announced that he was going to Cuba
to see Castro. He said he contemplated building a refinery in Cuba but would do
it through a Spanish subsidiary because of the trade embargo.
In 1997, a Spanish company invested $65 million in Cuba for a refinery for the
production of alcohol from molasses. In October 1999, Martin Andreas, senior
vice president, said ADM would consider constructing a vegetable-oil plant in
Cuba if the market were open.
Last January the Cuban government announced that it is moving toward
consideration of a joint-venture type of relationship with ADM. In February,
ADM announced plans for another trade exhibition in Havana in December.
What has this got to do with Elian Gonzalez?
Well, there are a lot of interesting coincidences. Remember the meeting with
the grandmothers at the home of the president of Barry University?
Dwayne Andreas is a large contributor to Barry University, and his wife is a
graduate and is past chairman of the board of trustees. The president of the
university was initially in favor of returning Elian to his father -- until the
meeting with the grandmothers convinced her that the Cuban government was
calling the shots.
Last October, Andrew Young, an ADM board member and member of the public-policy
committee, was installed as president of the National Council of Churches, an
old left front group, which has taken the lead in urging that Elian be returned
to his father.
Gregory Craig, the high-priced lawyer who suddenly materialized to represent
Juan Gonzalez, who couldn't afford two seconds of Craig's time, is part of a
law firm that also represents ADM. Craig is ostensibly being paid by the
National Council of Churches.
That seems like an awful lot of coincidences linking Elian Gonzalez with ADM,
which calls itself the supermarket to the world. Castro is like any other
communist dictator. If you want to cut deals with him, you have to kiss his
backside. If you want to open a news bureau in Havana, you have to kiss his
backside. Castro wants the kid back, and what do you know?
A leftist church group and a high-priced lawyer, both with ADM connections, pop
up to lead the campaign. And, no surprise, the big American news media jump on
the same bandwagon.
Castro, by the way, has already said Elian will be sent to a boarding school in
Havana, where Cuban psychologists will straighten out his mind. Castro's
daughter, who lives in Spain, had already warned that would be Elian's fate if
he's handed over to the dictator.
The Cuban exile community has always known that the question is not one of
familial custody but one of freedom or a kid being sacrificed to a ruthless
communist dictator.
One day I may find an American foreign policy that does not cause me to become
nauseated. By and large, it is safe to say that the American government
generally disgusts me, as do much of American big business and much of the
American news media. Liberty gets a cold reception from all three.
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on April 23, 2000
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