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Chronology of events in Elian Gonzalez saga
By Reuters, 4/22/00
MIAMI -- Here is a chronology of events in the international custody battle over Elian Gonzalez, a 6-year-old Cuban boy found adrift last November in the Atlantic Ocean after a migrant smuggling boat capsized, killing his mother and 10 other people.
On Saturday, armed U.S. agents stormed the home of the Miami relatives where he had been staying and snatched the boy in a stunning predawn raid aimed at reuniting him with his father.
-Nov 25, 1999 - Elian Gonzalez is found on an inner tube in the Atlantic Ocean off Fort Lauderdale shortly after two other survivors are rescued.
-Nov 26 - U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service turns Elian over to relatives in Miami.
-Nov 28 - Juan Miguel Gonzalez petitions U.S. government for return of his son to Cuba; exiles in Miami put boy's picture on poster as "child victim" of Fidel Castro.
-Dec 4 - Services held for 11 victims of migrant boat accident; Cuba renews call for return of "kidnapped" boy.
-Dec 6 - Elian has sixth birthday with Miami relatives; Cubans march on U.S. mission in Havana.
-Dec 10 - Miami relatives file political asylum claim for Elian; millions rally in demonstrations in Cuba.
-Dec 12 - Elian goes to Disney World, asks if boat at "Small World" attraction is going to sink.
-Dec 13 - Father meets with U.S. immigration agents.
-Jan 5 - U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service says Elian should be returned to father in Cuba.
-Jan 7 - Exiles block Miami roads in protest of U.S. decision. Miami lawyers petition for custody of boy.
-Jan 10 - Florida Family Court Judge Rosa Rodriguez rules Elian should stay with Miami relatives until March hearing to determine if he would be harmed by going back to Cuba.
-Jan 11 - Rodriguez decision questioned in light of connection to Miami family spokesman.
-Jan 12 - Attorney General Janet Reno rejects family court ruling, backs INS on Elian decision.
-Jan 14 - Republican members of Congress say they will seek citizenship for Elian.
-Jan 19 - Miami relatives file federal lawsuit to block Elian's return to Cuba, seek political asylum hearing.
-Jan 21 - Elian's grandmothers fly from Havana to New York to pursue claim for boy.
-Jan 22 - Grandmothers meet Reno in Washington to ask for boy's return.
-Jan 24 - Grandmothers fly to Miami but leave without seeing Elian.
-Jan 25 - U.S. officials order meeting between grandmothers and Elian.
-Jan 26 - Grandmothers take Lear jet, helicopter to meeting with boy at Miami Beach estate.
-Jan 27 - Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, nun who hosted Elian-grandmothers meeting, says boy should stay in U.S.; U.S. asks federal judge to dismiss relatives lawsuit.
-Jan 30 - Grandmothers return to Cuba to heroines' welcome.
-Feb 9 - U.S. government says it is reviewing reports that Elian's great-uncle and temporary caretaker, Lazaro Gonzalez, has drunken driving convictions.
-Feb 18 - INS denies request from father to move boy to home of another Miami relative, Manuel Gonzalez, who advocates returning him to Cuba.
-Feb 20 - U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler hospitalized after stroke.
-Feb 22 - U.S. District Judge Michael Moore assigned to Elian case.
-March 22 - Moore dismisses Miami relatives lawsuit, ruling INS has authority to return boy to father.
-March 29 - Alex Penelas, mayor of Miami-Dade County, said if civil unrest occurs in the city, local authorities will hold President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno responsible.
-March 29 - Castro says Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the boy's father, will travel to the United States to prepare to take home his son.
-March 30 - Vice President Al Gore, breaking ranks with the Clinton administration, calls on Congress to make Elian a permanent U.S. resident.
-April 6 - Father arrives in Washington, D.C. to reclaim his son.
-April 6 - Talks between INS and Miami relatives on returning child to father break down.
-April 7 - Reno meets with father, vows quick return of child.
-April 12 - Reno meets Elian, relatives in Miami; U.S. government orders relatives to travel to Washington with Reno to turn boy over to father or give up custody at Miami-area airport.
-April 13 - Miami relatives defy a federal order to hand the boy over by an afternoon deadline and then win a temporary court order barring the child from being sent to Cuba pending legal appeals.
-April 19 - A federal appeals court upholds the temporary injunction that blocked Elian from leaving the United States pending the relatives' appeal.
-April 20 - President Bill Clinton says court's temporary ban on the boy's leaving the United States means there is "no conceivable argument" against Elian being reunited with his father.
-April 21 - Federal authorities and Miami relatives hold negotiations through the night aimed at resolving the standoff. Attorney General Janet Reno says the relatives rejected all efforts.
-April 22 - Armed U.S. agents storm the family's Miami home before dawn and snatch Elian. He is flown to Washington D.C. and reunited with his father.
-April 24 - The government denies Elian's relatives' request to meet with the boy.
-April 25 - Janet Reno meets with angry members of Congress about the raid. Supporters of Elian in Little Havana stage a work 'sick-out,' bringing Little Havana to a stop, but otherwise leaving Miami unaffected.
-April 27 - A federal appeals court denies Elian's Miami relatives' request to visit the boy.
-April 28 - Miami's police chief resigns over the ensuing controversy about the raid to seize Elian.
-Boston.com Staff material was used in this report.
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Elian Gonzalez, held by Donato Dalrymple, is taken by U.S. federal agents from his Miami relatives in a pre-dawn raid Saturday.
