John LeBoutillier
Wednesday, May 31, 2000

Last week the family moved from the Wye River Plantation to Washington, D.C. No one has satisfactorily explained why – or Wye – the move.

In the days immediately preceding the move I received e-mails detailing an "argument" not reported in the mainstream national news media. (I am so surprised!)

I then asked various people to keep me and NewsMax in the loop. Here, then, is a short chronology of the strange events surrounding the Elian move to Washington, followed by my short analysis of the real reason for the move. (The following is exactly as I received it – caps and all):

1) Received several days before the move:

"** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** DURING MY LUNCH BREAK ON THE RADIO 610 WIOD AM (NEWS STATION), THEY STATED THAT THE PRESS WERE WITNESS TO ABUSE FROM JUAN MIGUEL. WHILE AWAITING A PRESS CONFERENCE, REPORTERS HEARD ARGUING IN A CLOSED DOOR ROOM WHERE JUAN MIGUEL AND HIS FAMILY WERE. PER THE REPORTERS, JUAN MIGUEL WAS HEARD DISPUTING W/ ELIAN BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT PUT ON HIS "YOUNG PIONEER" COMMUNIST UNIFORM. DURING THE ARGUMENT, JUAN MIGUELS WIFE (ELIANS STEPMOM) WAS HEARD TRYING TO GET IN THE MIDDLE IN DEFENSE OF ELIAN. SHE NOW SPORTS A BRUISE ACROSS HER FACE."

2) Received simultaneously as the move was announced:

"You have been sent this message from [email protected] as a courtesy of the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com).

THEY DON'T SAY WHY THEY WANT TO MOVE. THE NEIGHBORS ARE COMPLAINING OF TOO MUCH FIGHTING GOING ON (JUAN MIGUEL & WIFE)

To view the entire article, go to http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58093-2000May23.html

Next Stop for Elian: D.C.

Elian Gonzalez, his father and a Cuban entourage of about a dozen relatives and friends are expected to leave the bucolic Eastern Shore of Maryland and move into the heart of the District, possibly by the end of this week.

The 6-year-old shipwreck survivor and subject of a highly publicized court battle over whether he should live in Miami with distant relatives or return to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel, is moving to the Rosedale estate in the Cleveland Park section of Northwest Washington.

At its request, the entourage is expected to move to the estate owned by Youth For Understanding International Exchange in spite of preferences by the State Department and the U.S. Marshals Service that it remain on the more isolated Eastern Shore.

"If they decide they're going, the marshals are going with them," one government official said.

Nonetheless, that doesn't mean the marshals can tell the Gonzalez family and the other Cubans where to go or what to do, said Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade.

"They are not in custody," Wade said. "They are free to move about."

3) Received later in the week:

"<< ..DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION I CAN PASS ON TO HIM ... LIKE NAMES AND DATES AND TIMES AND POLICE REPORTS ... ANY LITTLE THING WOULD HELP ... THANKS ... JOAN >>

Hi! I interviewed a man that lived in Cardenas and was very close to J Miguel and his family. He confirmed that J Miguel hates the system and wanted badly to leave the island. When I questioned him about the abuse he stated he did not know about the abuse. I can assure you that he was lying.

You have to understand that Cubans that have lived under a communist system are not like u or I. They live in constant fear and think twice before they speak. One thing is true my dear Joan. Fidel's hands are long, very long. If the man that I interviewed states that the abuse is true even in the US his life could be in danger. Scary, no? Let me tell you kiddo, things are bad, very bad and I don't speak of Elian or Cuba, I speak of the US. So sad that so many have fallen to keep us free and then come sons of bitches like Clinton, wife, Reno and the rest of the clan. I am sorry I can't help you, I don't know much more.”

Conclusion: There is much more to this move than we know. Something went on at Wye that caused the Castro regime to move the boy closer to their control in Washington.

How can there be these reports of some sort of "argument" and then suddenly the whole little Cuban enclave is packed up and moved to within a mile of the Cuban Interest Section in D.C.?

Obviously there is something to this. Obviously Juan Miguel is an unhappy man and has taken it out on those closest to him. Until and unless he can ever speak freely we will never know the truth.