This past Sunday, 60 Minutes ran an “interview” with Elian Gonzalez, who is now 11 years old. Elian, you recall, was the 6-year old boy who was picked up at sea by two fisherman and taken ashore, where an international custody battle between Fidel Castro and the Miami exile community ensued, leaving bitter and unforgotten feelings among the freedom-loving Cubans now in the U.S.

The 60-Minutes interview had a staged appearance, with CBS itself admitting it got “help” from Fidel Castro’s own camera-man, making the film communist-approved propaganda to shed the most favorable possible light on the Castro regime. The whole thing reopened wounds for Miami’s Cubans and nearly all have written about it. No one can ever forget such a defeat for freedom at the hands of the U.S.

Here is a brief roundup:

Lola Candela at Babalu blog writes that this CBS interview was not about the child and never was about the child. The new as well as the old interviews with Elian are nothing more than exploitation to strike out at the Cuban exile community.

Robert Molleda at 26th Parallel has an excellent summary of how that Elian interview managed to open old wounds amd noted that CBS seemed to display a special hatred for the Cuban-American community through its repeated slams and slurs against them.

Val Prieto at Babalu blog has a note about a documentary that describes CBS’s repeated involvement with the Castro regime.

Chantel Acevedo at Yuca Baby has some pensive thoughts about the problems with U.S. immigration policy. I agree with her.

The Conductor at Cuban-American Pundits suggests that everyone e-mail the immigration officials who sanctioned the unconscionable ending to the Elian saga and let them know they haven’t been forgotten.

The blogger at En La Yuma questions whether the CBS interview was actually ‘candid’ and notes the symbols of privilege that now surround the boy.

At Babalu, I write that the presentation of the Elian interview and the real facts of the Elian drama do not correspond. What CBS presented was an oversimplified and sugarcoated version of events, further proof that this was Fidel Castro’s propaganda.