15 year old Yerlin Castro Castro sings and waves her country's flag as she sits on a friend's shoulders at a rally held infront of the U.S. interest section in Havana to demand the return of Elian Gonzalez February 23. Several thousand people gathered to listen to music, poems and political speeches on the bitter international custody battle for the six year rafter rescued off the Florida coast last November. U.S.-Cuban relations have been further damaged by the expulsion of a Cuban diplomat on spying charges, and the Cubans refusal to withdraw him unless the charges are proved in a court of law.

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