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Elian Gonzalez attends the UJC, Union of Young Communists, congress in Havana Sunday April 4, 2010. Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle 10 years ago in April 2000, attended Cuba's Young Communist Union wearing an olive green military school uniform.

Elian Gonzalez attends the UJC, Union of Young Communists, congress in Havana Sunday April 4, 2010. Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle 10 years ago in April 2000, attended Cuba's Young Communist Union wearing an olive green military school uniform.

Elian Gonzalez holds a Cuban flag during the UJC, Union of Young Communists, congress in Havana Sunday April 4, 2010. Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle 10 years ago in April 2000, attended Cuba's Young Communist Union wearing an olive green military school uniform.

Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is shown at his new home in Miami, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 1999. Gonzalez fled Cuba with his mother and stepfather in a small powerboat that sank during the 90-mile crossing to Florida. Nine people died, including his mother and stepfather. Elian was found alone Thanksgiving Day, clinging to inner tubes off the Florida coast near Fort Lauderdale.

Elian Gonzalez, left, decorates a Christmas tree as his cousin Marisleysis Gonzalez, right, looks on at her home in Miami, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1999. Elian's relatives were in a custody fight with his father in Cuba.

Elian Gonzalez sits on a new bicycle given to him as a present on his sixth birthday Monday, Dec. 6, 1999, in Miami.

Elian Gonzalez, 5, is guided by relatives through the lobby of the Joe DiMaggio Childrens Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., Friday, Nov. 26, 1999. Gonzalez, one of three survivors from a boat carrying 14 Cubans that sank two days earlier in the Atlantic Ocean, was rescued from an inner tube floating about two miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.

Thousands of students wave Cuban flags in front of a billboard demanding the return of six-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez during a protest in Havana, Cuba Monday, Dec. 20, 1999.

Elian Gonzalez, left, and his family arrive at the United Methodist Building in Washington Tuesday, June 27, 2000. His Miami relatives are mounted a last-gasp effort to keep him on U.S. soil. Elian's father Juan Miguel Gonzalez at second right.

Elian Gonzalez walks across the tarmac at Dulles International Airport Wednesday with his father Juan Miguel, his step-mother Nersy and brother Hianny. They were walking to the private jet taking them back to Havana.

Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez observes his image as he receives a Free Spirit Award from Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and the Freedom Forum, Friday Feb. 8, 2002 in Havana, Cuba.

Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez waves a Cuban flag along with his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez, left, during a rally in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, Saturday, May 25, 2002. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans attended the morning rally here, where Cuban President Fidel Castro spoke about Cuba's relations with the United States.

Elian Gonzalez, center, attends a political rally on the fifth anniversary of his return to Cuba, next to his brother Yannis Gonzalez (left), in Havana, Friday April 22, 2005.

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Elian Gonzalez attends the UJC, Union of Young Communists, congress in Havana Sunday April 4, 2010. Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle 10 years ago in April 2000, attended Cuba's Young Communist Union wearing an olive green military school uniform.

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