Elián González documentary to air Thursday on CNN
August 23, 2017
Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald
Elián, a documentary about the painful custody battle over whether a Cuban boy should be returned to his father on the island after his mother drowned at sea or remain with his Miami relatives, makes its TV debut on CNN Thursday.
The events in the film played out over Thanksgiving Day in 1999 when Elián González was found floating in an inner tube by two South Florida men and ended seven months later when, legal appeals exhausted, his father accompanied him on a flight back to Cuba.
