(CNN) Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy whose custody case sparked diplomatic tensions and attracted intense media coverage, will soon be a father himself, he announced on Facebook on Sunday. Gonzalez, 26, made the announcement on Father's Day and said his own father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who brought him back from the US to Cuba, was his inspiration as he prepared to become a dad for the first time. "Soon I will begin to understand what it means to be a father," Elian Gonzalez wrote on his Facebook page. In a message to CNN on Sunday, Gonzalez said he and his fiancée were expecting to have a baby girl later this summer. On Thanksgiving Day in 1999, a 5-year-old Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast.

Source: CNN June 21, 2020 20:03 UTC