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Post number 11702

danec — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:14:42 -0800

Elian's Miami home has been turned into shrine by relatives in Florida to counter the Cuban museum to the "battle of ideas" in Elian's home town of Cardenas that recalls Cuba's version of the Elian story.

By: adnanbwp

adnanbwp — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:22:11 -0800

It's about time. Just wait before the "relatives" start charging a price to visit the museum. Just another example of how people, no matter how serious or grave the event is, will always find a way to gain profit or popularity. Same goes for Castro. Turning a mother deprived child into a national interest. Shame on you old man, you rascal you from the country that makes the best cigars :)

By: Rastafari

Rastafari — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:28:32 -0800

Who's Elian, and why should we care?

By: flip

flip — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:31:46 -0800

Please don't remind us of this terrible story!

By: aacheson

aacheson — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:48:06 -0800

I can't imagine even one person visiting this stupid "museum." Acually, I take that back. There are so many poeple who eat this kind of thing up. It will probably be wildly successful. How depressing.

By: aramaic

aramaic — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:55:13 -0800

See, this is why the Cuban exile community should just be arrested en masse. Their older generation is simply insane, and they're polluting our relations with Cuba.

By: skallas

skallas — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:00:01 -0800

Err, at the risk of sounding anal - a museum is not a shrine. I was expecting waterstained images of Elian on the concrete or Elian endorsed beads. I walk away disappointed.

By: adnanbwp

adnanbwp — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:39:55 -0800

skallas: Now that you have made the distinction, I am sure Elian endorsed beads along with Elian-looking-down-on-earth-from-a-shiny-cloud T-shirts will be soon available. Thankyou Very Much !!!

By: mmarcos

mmarcos — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:45:33 -0800

Damn, a potential Onion article becomes true before it's printed in the Onion.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 01:50:44 -0800

a museum is not a shrine The boy's toys and clothes are on display, and many of those who make the pilgrimage to behold these sacred objects experience ecstatic religious emotions centered on Elian. Moreover, the visitors arrive steeped in an iconography of Elian delivered safely to the shore by dolphins, etc. Well...I think any anthropologist with the opportunity to study the goings-on at this place would find everything necessary to call it a shrine.