Cuban father pays price for custody of daughter (The Miami child detained from going home to Cuba)

[Judi Lynn]

This story was slipped right by us. I'm wondering if the Herald deliberately ignored it.

Cuban father pays price for custody of daughter
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ,AP
Posted: 2008-05-04 00:02:58

MIAMI (AP) - The 5-year-old with hazel eyes and a bouncy ponytail swung across the monkey bars as her Cuban father Rafael Izquierdo proudly watched nearby, ready to catch her.

"Look at me go Papi!" she squealed, just before she dropped into his waiting arms.

In the six months since Izquierdo regained custody of his young daughter after a high-profile court case, the two have developed a deep bond. It is one they never shared when the girl lived in Cuba with her mother, let alone after she first came to the U.S. and sparked an intense, international custody battle.

Yet in reclaiming one child, Izquierdo has found himself separated from nearly everything and everyone else he loves. He lives alone with her in the U.S., jobless - a pariah to many Cuban-Americans who cannot fathom why he would want to return with the girl to the poverty-seeped, communist island their own families fled.

Last month, Izquierdo's pregnant wife Yanara Alvarez and their 7-year-old daughter Rachel returned to Cuba so Alvarez could take advantage of the country's free medical care during their son's birth. Mother and daughter have yet to receive permission from U.S. immigration authorities to return to Miami, Izquierdo's attorney said.

Meanwhile, Izquierdo has received no guarantee that if he leaves for a weekend to visit them, he can return.

More:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/cuban-father-pays-price-for-custody-of/n20080504000209990010

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Very ugly situation for this young man, isn't it?

Thanks to the fascist whores in Miami.

[Mika]

1. Oh my. So ugly.

Whatever the Cubaphobes accuse Cuba of doing, the US does in spades.

:puke: