Exile group demonstrates at Reno's house
About 50 people demonstrated Saturday outside the house of former
U.S.
Attorney General Janet Reno to protest the Elián González
raid, Miami-Dade
Police said.
The protest was held by Vigila Mambisa, a local Cuban exile group.
"It was peaceful, and there were no arrests,'' police spokesman
Rudy Espinosa
said.
Espinosa said about 10 officers kept the peace and traffic flowing
outside Reno's
home. He said Reno was home at the time of the protest.
No one answered the phone at the Reno home Saturday evening.
Miguel Saavedra, president of the group, led the protesters, who
criticized Reno's
involvement in last year's government raid that returned rafter
Elián to Cuba. Ever
since she presided over that raid, Reno has become a target for
protest.
Reno returned to South Florida last month after serving eight
years as the nation's
top law officer. She has said she intends to head out in her
red truck and drive
across the country, and to kayak from Everglades City to Flamingo.