Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who was forcefully removed from his U.S. relatives and returned to Cuba, calls Fidel Castro his "father." In an interview set to be aired on CBS next week, the 11-year-old Gonzalez reportedly speaks favorably of the Cuban leader though says he would like to visit his family in Miami. Gonzalez was found of the Florida coast floating in an inner tube alone after his mother and 10 others drowned trying to flee Cuba. After a lengthy legal battle, the boy was seized by federal agents -- under protest from his Miami relatives -- and returned to Cuba. The boy reportedly told CBS that his Miami relatives made disparaging remarks about his father Juan Miguel in an effort to convince him he wanted to stay with them. "They were telling me bad things about (my father)," Elian tells CBS, the Miami Herald reported Friday. Relatives of Gonzalez in Miami called the interview Castro-sponsored propaganda. © Copyright 2005 by United Press International

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