May Day

Fidel Castro Cuban leader Fidel Castro speaks Monday, May 1, 2000, during May Day festivities in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. Castro spoke with Elian Gonzalez's father by cellular telephone today in front of a May Day crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered to demand the boy's return from the United States.(AP Photo/Jose Goitia)
Fidel Castro Cuban leader Fidel Castro marches toward the podium before speaking before a crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered to demand the return of Elian Gonzalez Monday, May 1, 2000, during May Day festivities in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. Castro is wearing tennis shoes for a planned two-mile march to the U.S. Interests Section after his speech.(AP Photo/Jose Goitia)
Fidel Castro With a demonstrator in the foreground wearing a t-shirt depicting six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, President Fidel Castro, center, and Pedro Ross Leal, union leader, left, march during the May Day celebrations from Havana, Cuba's Plaza of the Revolution to the U.S. Interests Section almost two miles away. (AP Photo/Jorge Rey)
Fidel Castro President Fidel Castro gives instructions as he arrives at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, leading millions of Cubans in vast May Day rallies across the communist-run Caribbean island Monday. Castro praised the Cuban people's 'ceaseless battle' against the 'barbarous and cruel crime' of shipwreck boy Elian Gonzalez's kidnapping in the United States. (Heriberto Rodriguez/Reuters)
Cuban Flags Cuban flags wave as workers attend the May Day rally Monday in Havana. President Fidel Castro dedicated his speech to Elian Gonzalez praising the Cuban people's 'ceaseless battle' against the 'barbarous and cruel crime' of Gonzalez's 'kidnapping' in the United States. (Heriberto Rodriguez/Reuters)
Fidel Castro Cuban President Fidel Castro waves a flag during a May Day rally in Revolution Square, Monday. Castro dedicated his speech to Elian Gonzalez. (Heriberto Rodriguez/Reuters)


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