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Elian Gonzalez, who at age six sparked an international custody battle that ended in his dramatic return to Cuba, blamed a US law for his mother's death in an interview posted Monday. In November 1999, Gonzalez was plucked from the sea off Florida's coast after an overcrowded motorboat capsized en route from Cuba, killing his mother and 10 others seeking to enter the United States illegally. His Florida relatives fought to keep him in the United States, but his father demanded he be returned. The event culminated on June 30, 2000, when heavily-armed US agents broke into the Miami home of Gonzalez's uncle, 2000, on orders of then-US attorney-general Janet Reno to return the boy to Cuba.
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