The account left Elian’s Miami relatives angry and flabbergasted. The boy’s great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez has filed a petition to grant the first grader political asylum in the United States; he wants to keep the boy in Miami against the wishes of Elian’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. “It’s embarrassing,” said Armando Gutierrez, a spokesman for the Miami family. “I came from Cuba when I was 11 years old, and my grandmother never measured me in that way.” Instead of nibbling Elian’s tongue, perhaps Grandma should have bitten her own.
