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Elián relatives detail protest at Obama's speech PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 21 June 2008

BY ALFONSO CHARDY
MIAMI HERALD

Standing in the front yard of the house where immigration agents seized Elián González, the child rafter's great-uncle and great-aunt detailed plans for a protest Saturday when Barack Obama will speak to a mayors' conference.

Delfín González, who called Friday's news conference at the Elián Little Havana house, said he, his sister Caridad and other González family members were upset that among the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee's advisors are two men who helped return the child to Cuba eight years ago.

Obama's foreign policy adviser Greg Craig represented Elián's father in the custody battle. Eric Holder, a member of Obama's vice presidential search committee, was deputy attorney general when then-Attorney General Janet Reno ordered the then-6-year-old boy seized.

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