Elian Gonzalez, the object of a 1999-2000 custody squabble involving Washington, Havana and family members on both sides of the Florida Strait, holds a piece of U.S. legislation directly responsible ...

Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters NEW YORK -- Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions, has been nominated to serve in the island's National Assembly, the ...

Program note: CNN Films presents, “Elian,” the story of a custody fight over a 6-year-old boy that grew into an international incident. Watch “Elian” at 10 p.m. ET Thursday on CNN. He is unassuming ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Wednesday marks the 20 th anniversary of the end of the Elián González saga. The international custody and immigration controversy over the 5-year-old boy was a hot topic in South ...

Of all the strange, discordant moments that have soured the Cuban family feud, surely the most traumatic was the day the Elian custody battle was sorted out at the point of a gun. And yet, after all ...