Elian Gonzalez, Stuck in the US (2000) w/ Geraldo Cadava

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It’s January 29th. This day in 2000, the Cuban relatives of Elian Gonzalez are in the United States arguing that the six-year-old child should be returned to Cuba — while his relatives in Miami and many in the Cuban-American community are fighting for him to be kept in the U.S.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Northwestern history professor Geraldo Cadava to discuss why the Gonzalez story became such a flashpoint, and how it played into the political moment.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day an esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:09.0	This day January 2000, two women, two grandmothers are traveling from Havana to the United States
0:16.7	They are seeking the return of their grandson from the US to Cuba their grandson is Elion Gonzalez a six-year-old woman the drowned while trying to make the passage and Elyon ended up in Miami with relatives and would become embroiled in a heated custody
0:37.6	and immigration controversy with all sorts of political wrinkles.
0:41.6	I think for anyone listening now who was watching the news at
0:44.4	the time they remember a lot of the flash points of this story including some of the
0:48.5	images including that photo of a Here to discuss as always are Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello Jody. Hey there and our special guest for this episode is Geraldo Kadava professor of history at, who focuses on Latinos in the United States and
1:15.2	he's been on the show before and you may remember that we gave a shout out to Jerry's newsletter
1:19.6	Latinos in depth when we did our favorite things of 2022 episodes.
1:23.4	So if that didn't convince you to subscribe,
1:25.5	this will convince you to subscribe.
1:26.8	But Jerry, welcome back to the show.
1:28.2	Thank you for doing this.
1:29.6	Thanks so much for having me.
1:30.6	You guys are too kind.
1:32.3	I appreciate it.
1:33.0	Too kind is a good standard to aspire to.
1:36.0	There you go.
1:38.0	Can't go wrong.
1:40.0	Can't go wrong. So look talk about a story with with layers and forgotten layers but you know I'll just I'll just kind of start to say like you can kind of you know move up the layers in terms of scale and you can say okay there's the personal layer of this young boy in his family
1:54.7	and then there's the local layer of you know the Cuban community in Miami which is super
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