The Year in Pictures 2000
ALAN DIAZ / AP
April
Moments after U.S. agents seized Elian in Miami, the boy was bundled in a blanket, taken to a waiting van and driven away. He was then flown to a reunion with his father, and the Gonzalez family holed up in a Washington suburb while the courts determined Elian's fate.
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