Elian Gonzalez's great uncle: 'He says what they taught him'

[pstokely]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/elian-gonzalez-family/

"He understands and says what they have taught him," Delfin Gonzalez told CNN en Español from his Miami home on Wednesday. "He cannot understand anything else."
Fourteen years after Elian Gonzalez made headlines as the subject of a bitter international custody battle, he spoke to CNN this week from a youth conference in Ecuador.
Elian: A hero in Cuba
It's his first trip abroad since the U.S. government removed him at gunpoint from his relatives' home in Miami and, after a legal battle, sent him back to Cuba to live with his father."

[angstlessk]

1. Yes, and had he lived here...he would have said what WE taught him n/t

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2. For the win!

Nicely done.

[onehandle]

3. He would have been influenced, not brainwashed to a word for word script. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. I guess you have never met a republican.

[Nye Bevan]

5. He would be beaten up and arrested if he said anything different.

Cuban security officials detained nearly 30 members of the dissident Ladies in White while a government-backed mob twice pummeled and kicked a top opposition leader in yet another weekend crackdown on pro-democracy activists.

Guillermo Fariñas, one of the country’s best known dissidents, said he suffered half a dozen bruises in the attacks Sunday as he twice approached a police station in his hometown of Santa Clara to file a complaint against the arrests of 11 Ladies in White.

A government-organized mob of 120-130 people blocked the street and about 40 punched and kicked him, Fariñas said. He went home to change his bloody clothes after the first pummeling but returned and was attacked again in front of the station.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/04/3731494/nearly-30-cuban-dissidents-were.html#storylink=cpy

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6. He's 20 years old. Not a little kid.

I'm sure my Repuke relatives think I'm brainwashed too. Guess what, not everyone loves capitalism.

[pstokely]

7. and no one thinks he would have been brainwashed into young teabagger if he stayed in Miami?

nt

[Starry Messenger]

8. People on this thread seem to think that that doesn't happen here.

Only teh evil Commies fill the youth with terrifying messages to stamp out the pure spirit of free market capitalism. QED.