unknown.Another article on the same topic appeared in the Weekly Standard magazine on April 24,2000. Author, Tucker Carlson relates a two-sided protest regarding the fate of Elian Gonzalez. Among the public and private protesters lies entertainers Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia who are both of Cuban origin. Both feel that Elian should be allowed to stay in the United States All of the deep seated emotion is over the fact that Janet Reno decided on April 13, 200 that the Miami relatives had until 2:00 p.m. that day to deliver Elian to an airport outside of Miami. If the family do not comply, federal marshals will be forced to take action and remove the boy themselves. A Miami police officer was interviewed and quoted as a source because he has standing on both sides of the Gonzalez issue. As a policeman, Angel Calzadilla was ordered to go to Elian’s house to maintain order but he asserts how hard it is to conceal his emotions about the case. His Cuban born grandparents instilled in him the evils of communism. To him, Elian’s return to Cuba would be heartbreaking. The outstanding facts in the article include Reno’s decision to remove Elian from his Miami family’s custody and that the divided views of the public that fall along ethnic lines. In Miami, the majority of Cubans thinks Elian should stay in the U.S. while polls show that 90 percent of blacks thinks he should return to Cuba. For the time being, an appeals court in Atlanta issued an emergency stay that temporarily put a hold on Elian’s return to Cuba.Both articles are circling the same issues but the diversity of their approaches limits the amount of similarity between them. However, both articles successfully captures the fact that there is no consensus on what should be the outcome of this case. Each of the stories tried to obtain some information from their sources that will lead to a confident prediction but still no common ground was f...
