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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Elián González poised to be top Cuban lawmaker decades after Florida deportation

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Elián González in Havana, 2016. Photograph: Ismael Francisco/AP

When he was six, his terrified face – photographed during a raid by armed immigration officers on his family’s Miami home – became one of the most memorable images of cold war tensions between the US and Cuba.

Now 29, and more than two decades after he was forcibly deported from Florida to his homeland at the direction of the US supreme court, Elián González is poised to become one of Cuba’s most senior lawmakers.

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