People come here from all over, and from as far away as Argentina, Poland, the Czech Republic and Japan,

Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.

prove that he suffered past persecution or will suffer future persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group, or political opinion.

I'd like to go to Cuba.

The boy wanted to be here [in Miami], but he's obliged to live in an absurd system, ... Fidel doesn't let us communicate with him. Neither Elian nor his father agrees with the regime. He went back to Cuba only because the Clinton administration pressured him to.

When they came in, I stood in front of everybody and begged them, 'Please don't let the boy see the guns ... I'll give you the boy,'