The boat filled with Cuban migrants was wrecked before it could reach Miami and set Elian Gonzales ashore. Six-year-old Elian Gonzales lost his mother and hope for a better life in a more prosperous country. After a battle between members of his mother's Miami-based family and his father in Cuba, the human drama tinge d with inter-state political battle ended with a controversial raid by members of an elite US security force. Seen off by weep