Elian Gonzalez at age 20. This famous Cuban boy was caught in a custody battle between his father in Cuba and relatives in the United States when his mother died trying to take him to the Gonzalez was age 6 when this battle began in 1999, and became the center of a controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States.

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