Anniversary of Elian´s Return Celebrated in Cuba
Five years ago today, Tuesday, little Elián González, the boy who survived a shipwreck and became the center of a legal dispute between his father in Cuba and distant relatives that held him in the United States, returned to Havana.

The happy ending of this drama, the return of the child to his father in Cuba, was headlined in local press, recalling the mobilization of the people of Cuba and world support on his behalf.

Elian´s retention in Miami by distant relatives, helped by anti-Cuban sectors in southern Florida, provoked an outcry and huge demonstrations on the Island that sparked what is today known as the "Battle of Ideas".

The first victory of those ideas, Elian´s return, was the fruit of group effort by all Cubans, international solidarity and the majority of the people in the United States, Granma daily proclaims on its front page.

This battle continues, now for the overturn of the Cuban Adjustment Act, Torricelli and Helms-Burton legislations in the US, as well as against US executive measures and the liberation and return of five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in that country for fighting terrorism, Juventud Rebelde press points out.

The little boy, now well-adjusted and living quietly and happily with his family, survived at sea after his mother took him recklessly in a primitive boat that sank off the coasts of the United States in November 1999. The wreckage cost the lives of his mother and 11 other people.