According to Granma  Threats and Violence Lead to Tragedy
Editor's note: Nowhere has the battle over the fate of Elian
Gonzalez been waged with more ferocity than in Cuba. And no
Cuban media outlet has been more persistent than Granma, the
official newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party. Since Elian's
rescue at sea on Thanksgiving, the paper has published more than
120 stories on the subject. Its online editions have added even
more articles, drawn from around the globe.  Tuesday through
Saturday 500,000 copies of Granma's print edition are
distributed throughout the nation, from major cities to rural
hamlets. The cost per issue is 20 centavos. It is by far the
most widely read periodical on the island.  On February 8 the
paper published an extraordinary 11,000-word report examining
the lives of four people who were intimately involved in the
Elian saga: the boy's mother, Elizabeth Brotons Rodríguez; her
boyfriend, Lázaro Rafael Munero García, who organized the
fateful boat trip that resulted in eleven deaths;