"Why did she [Elian’s mother, a maid] do it? What was she escaping? By all accounts this quiet, serious young woman, who loved to dance the salsa, was living the good life, as good as it gets for a citizen in Cuba....An extended family destroyed by a mother’s decision to start a new life." — Jim Avila from Havana on NBC Nightly News, April 8, 2000.
Jim Avila: Elian Gonzalez's mother lived 'the good life' in Castro's Cuba
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