Victory is not complete in the case of Eli�n, warns Fidel PRESIDENT Fidel Castro warned last night, Saturday April 22, that victory is still not complete in the case of Eli�n Gonz�lez, because it's not clear what the counterrevolutionary Miami mafia is capable of doing after losing the boy it had kidnapped He made this statement during a speech in the town of Jag�ey Grande, Matanzas province, in a ceremony marking the 39th anniversary of the defeat of the mercenary invasion at the Bay of Pigs. .He added that the struggle will also continue against unjust laws such as the Cuban Adjustment Act, the Helms-Burton Act, the Torricelli Act and the United States' economic blockade against Cuba, which he termed genocidal. Fidel noted that U.S. President William Clinton had acted nobly in this case, thus doing a service not only to the boy but also to the United States itself. He also praised the efforts of U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner, and recognized the role played by U.S. public opinion. The leader of the Revolution called April 22, the day Eli�n was returned to his father, as truly critical and serious, because the child's father, Juan Miguel Gonz�lez, would not accept any more delays in achieving the reunion with his son, and had announced the decision to travel to Miami with his wife and baby son to take charge of Eli�n. That posed a potential danger for them, and the Miami mafia could have created an impossible situation for the U.S. government. Fidel stated that it was a day of truce between the United States and Cuba, perhaps the only such day in the last 41 years. Regarding the ruling of the Atlanta appeals court, the Cuban president described the judges' words as unprecedented, when they stated that a six-year-old child had the authority to request asylum on his own. "What would become of the fathers in the Third World is that position becomes generalized!" he warned. As for the court's ruling that the child could not leave the United States until the final decision regarding that alleged right to request asylum is issued, he called it unnecessary, since Juan Miguel had already said that he was willing to wait until the process is completed. "That prohibition was not needed," he said, adding that the ones who were violating the law and defying U.S. authorities were the kidnapping relatives, who had been blackmailing the government of the most powerful nation in the world, with the support of the Miami mafia, which considers itself immune. Regarding the recent situation in Miami in the case of Eli�n, he said that it was chaotic and that there was even an attempt to convince the child to reject his father. There were psychologists and experts working on him as if they were training a dog, he commented. He expressed the hope that now no one would block the issuance of visas for a group of children chosen to travel with their teachers and a group of Cuban experts, to help... http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/victoryis/victoryis.html
