Gonzalez, 26, made the announcement on Father’s Working day and explained his own father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who brought him again from the US to Cuba, was his inspiration as he ready to turn into a dad for the to start with time.
“Quickly I will start to understand what it signifies to be a father,” Elian Gonzalez wrote on his Facebook website page. “But what I know up till now is my father and I hope to do it as 50 percent as very well as he did with me.”
In a concept to CNN on Sunday, Gonzalez reported he and his fiancée ended up anticipating to have a little one lady afterwards this summer season.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1999, a 5-12 months-old Gonzalez was uncovered clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast. His mom and nine other individuals drowned after the rickety boat they have been traveling in capsized while they tried to get to the United States from Cuba.
Gonzalez went to are living with family members in Miami who refused to return him to his father in Cuba. Juan Miguel Gonzalez claimed he was unaware of his ex-wife’s approach to acquire the boy on the dangerous journey to the US.
The situation stoked Chilly War-era tensions among the US and Cuba as Gonzalez’s father and the Miami family battled in US court for custody of the tiny boy. US immigration officers inevitably determined that Gonzalez must be returned to his father’s custody, who came to the United States to argue for his son’s return.
Inevitably armed US federal agents stormed the Miami residence where Gonzalez was remaining with his uncle to reunite him with his father. A famous photograph of a terrified Gonzalez searching at an armed US agent received a Pulitzer Prize.
Rioting broke out in Cuban American communities in Miami, where quite a few felt Gonzalez’s return to Cuba would supply a propaganda victory to Fidel Castro.
After the US Supreme Court docket refused to get included in the situation, father and son traveled back to Cuba.
