| Family friend Robert Curbeuro, left, leads Elian Gonzalez's second cousins Mariseleysis Gonzalez, center, and Georgina Cid, right, after arriving at the Miami International Airport in Miami early Thursday morning, April 27, 2000. The family returned to Miami from Washington DC after failed attempts to see the 6-year-old shipwreck survivor. (AP Photo/LM Otero) |
| An unidentified well wisher greats Elian Gonzalez's great-uncle Delfin Gonzalez, second from left, as he and Marisleysis Gonzalez arrive at Miami International Airport in Miami early Thursday morning, April 27, 2000. The family returned to Miami from Washington DC after failed attempts to see the 6-year-old shipwreck survivor. (AP Photo/LM Otero) |
| Lazaro Gonzalez, right, great uncle of Elian Gonzalez, receives a hug from family attorney Manny Diaz, while family relative Jose Cid, holding Lazarito Gonzalez, left, looks on Thursday April 27, 2000 in Miami. Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday that agents who seized Elian Gonzalez had to have a "show of force, not a use of force, to show we were in control.'' A psychiatrist who examined the 6-year-old Cuban boy said it's likely he suffered no lasting harm from the armed raid.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) |
| Lazaro Gonzalez, right, speaks to a small group of supporters of his great nephew Elian Gonzalez Thursday April 27, 2000 outside his home in Miami. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) |
| Florida's Governor Jeb Bush, left, speaks to Luis Sabines, President of the Latin Chamber of Commerce of the U.S,. following a meeting with community leaders in Miami Thursday April 27, 2000. Bush listened to grievances from minority leaders that said that rebuilding between the minorty groups should had started long before Elian Gonzalez was rescued at sea. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) |
| Supporters of Elian Gonzalez gather in front of the home of Lazaro Gonzalez, great-uncle of Elian, in prayer Thursday April 27, 2000 in Miami. A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a request by Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives to visit him and declined to appoint a guardian for the boy. (AP Photo/LM Otero) |
| Kendall Coffey, attorney for the Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez makes a statement outside his office Thursday, April 27, 2000 in Miami. Shadow at left is attorney Manny Diaz. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) |