-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Published Thursday, February 3, 2000, in the Miami Herald Grandmoms resisted thought of taking Elian BY ELAINE DE VALLE [EMAIL PROTECTED] A week after the much-publicized visit between Elian Gonzalez and his two grandmothers, the women said in an interview with Cuban television that they were tempted to grab the boy in Miami and not let him go. But, they said, they had to respect the agreements they had made. ``Weren't you tempted to grab your grandson and not let them take him?'' journalist Arleen Rodriguez Derivet asked. Mariela Quintana, Elian's paternal grandmother, admitted the thought crossed their minds. ``We knew that we couldn't do it, we had to follow the rules, and at no time did we not follow them,'' she said. Quintana returned Sunday to Cuba along with Raquel Rodriguez, the boy's maternal grandmother. Quintana added that their goal was to ``see the boy, be with him, but never to break the law.'' Other details from the 90-minute meeting revealed Wednesday shocked and angered his Miami relatives, said family spokesman Armando Gutierrez. He referred to a particular comment by Quintana. Quintana said in the interview that she did some ``mischievous things'' so that Elian would talk. She wanted to see ``if he had no little tongue,'' she said. ``I took it out of his mouth, I bit it.'' Then she asked to see his private parts, presumably to see how much he had grown. ``If you want to see how he's grown, you measure him. You don't go inside his pants,'' Gutierrez said. ``I am so surprised by this. So much hassle to see their grandson, and instead of kissing him and hugging him they are biting his tongue and taking his thing out? ``It's left me dumbstruck.'' He said he didn't believe that they were trying to determine the boy's growth in the two months that he has been away from them. ``I don't know if they were looking to see if he was wired, if he was bugged,'' Gutierrez added. He said the boy's great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez -- with whom the child has been staying after being plucked from the sea on Thanksgiving Day -- saw the interview on Spanish-language Channel 23 and was ``disturbed [and] upset and he is surprised that they used those precious moments with him to do that.'' Neither Lazaro Gonzalez nor his daughter Marisleysis Gonzalez, who family members say has become a sort of surrogate mother for Elian, could be reached for comment Wednesday night. But Gutierrez said he had not asked the boy about the meeting with his grandmothers. ``I have not asked the boy anything about that visit because when he went to that meeting he was scared and when he came out he was relaxed a little bit that he wasn't taken back to Cuba,'' Gutierrez said. ``So I don't talk to him about it. I talk to him about sports and school and high-fives -- little things that kids like to hear.'' Gutierrez said the grandmothers' interview was also full of lies. For instance, they said they had not been able to talk to Elian on the telephone for more than four days. ``And that is just not true,'' Gutierrez said. Herald wire services contributed to this report. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
