Chess Piece: The Elián González Story

The Rescue

In 1999, two Florida fishermen found a cherub of a boy named Elián González in the sea on Thanksgiving. The boy had floated alone for days. His mother managed to save her son’s life by strapping him to an inner tube before she drowned. Elián's father in Cuba desperately tried to get his son back. Our host, investigative journalist Peniley Ramírez, was also sepa… Play episode