14-year-old Florida Boy Flies Back to Cuba

apparently upset over his loss of computer and music privileges, a 14 year old Cuban-American boy bought a plane ticket over the Internet and traveled to Cuba via the Bahamas to live with his mother. the boy had been accused of cheating while running for class president, and his father had cancelled his computer privileges and confiscating his iPod.

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Alfredo Diaz, Jr. had come from Cuba to live with his father (with the boy's mother's consent) six years ago, and had visited his mother this summer.

the boy was also apparently involved in a budding relationship with a girl his age while in Cuba.

the Cuban official press has been silent on the subject thus far.

i hope that if the boy decides to come back to the US, the Cuban authorities will allow him to become reunited with his father.