Introducing: Chess Piece: The Elián González Story

Suave

Futuro Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Here's a new series that we think you'll love: "Chess Piece: The Elián González Story," from Futuro Studios, in collaboration with iHeartRadio's My Cultura Podcast Network.

In 1999, two Florida fishermen found a cherub of a boy named Elián González in the sea on Thanksgiving. The boy had floated alone for days. His mother managed to save her son’s life by strapping him to an inner tube before she drowned. Elián's father in Cuba desperately tried to get his son back.

Our host, investigative journalist Peniley Ramírez, was also separated from her family by the Florida Straits. When Peni was 11 years old her dad told her a dangerous secret before he left on an official trip on behalf of the Cuban government — he would not be returning.

Relating to Elián in many ways, Peniley seeks to unearth his story with the clarity of history, nearly a quarter century later. Looking beyond the mythology around Elián saga, from the miracle rescue to dolphins, Peni uncovers a more layered story, even dark at times. This season on Chess Piece, we tell you the Elián story unlike you've heard before.

You can find and subscribe to "Chess Piece" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. You can also follow it on Instagram and Tiktok.

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0:00.0	Hello dear listener
0:08.9	Como Toota, it's me Maria Innoosa, and we are working so hard on Swave season 2.
0:16.0	Cannot wait to finish and share it with you.
0:19.0	But meanwhile, I do have something I want you to listen to. We are sharing an episode with you
0:27.4	right here of our new podcast. It's called chess piece, the Elian Gonzales, and it's produced by our very own Futura
0:35.6	studios in partnership with I-Harts Michael Tura Podcast Network. This story is
0:40.8	about one of the biggest custody battles in history that was about
0:45.6	Elian Gonzalez, who was this Cuban boy who survived a shipwrecked journey from Cuba to the
0:52.0	United States in 1999 that was 25 years ago and it was a
0:57.2	massive massive and very dramatic story because it was a battle of ideals between the boy's father in Cuba and
1:06.8	the boys relatives in Miami so essentially a battle between Fidel Castro in Cuba and between the exile leadership and community in
1:16.4	Miami.
1:17.4	But it was also an issue of immigration, one that involved U.S court cases months and months of
1:26.0	non-stop media coverage and also the question of where should this boy
1:31.6	ultimately end up because it was also about the pain of something we talk about a lot now?
1:39.0	Family Separation which is a core experience for many Cubans, the podcast which is dramatic and wonderful and very personal is hosted by our very own Penny Le Rameres, she's co-o of Futuro Media, co-executive producer of
1:55.2	Latino USA and co-host of USA versus Garcia Luna. Now the story coming up is
2:01.6	gripping. It's about complicated geopolitics, about ideology, but also about love and family.
2:09.0	And yes, it's going to be emotional. So enjoy the first episode, dear listener, and subscribe wherever
2:17.0	you get your podcasts to hear our full series, which will be airing this fall.
2:23.0	Enjoy. The water changes from a beautiful shade of teal to sapphire blue.
2:47.0	When there is a storm, it looks almost black.
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