Elian Gonzalez Through the Years

Cuba has released photos of Elian Gonzalez, the one-time cause celebre of Cuban exiles in the U.S., wearing a military school uniform and attending a Young Communist Union congress. When he was 5, Gonzalez was found floating off the coast of Florida in an inner tube after his mother drowned while fleeing Cuba for the United States. Despite objections from Cuban exiles, the U.S. ruled that Gonzalez should return to Cuba to be with his father. (Cuban government)