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The story was well known:  small boy cast adrift on an inner tube when a migrant-smuggling boat capsized.  Mother drowned.  Boy rescued by fisherman, brought ashore in Miami, put in the custody of relatives who, backed by anti-Communist exiles, refuse to return him to his father in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

 

Path to Freedom.com was created in December 1999, defending Elian's father's, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, attempts to have his son return to him.  What followed then was a 6-month-long rhetorical battle ranging from Washington D.C., to Havana to the streets of Miami.

 

From online petitions, action alerts, providing information and up to minute news, to the mailing of action packets, Path to Freedom.com spearheaded the movement to return Elian home to his father in Cuba.

 

For more information of Path to Freedom's role and how this revolutionary online movement influenced the outcome of the Elian case, read: Archived Articles »

 

 

 

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