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The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the Cuban province of Matanzas, home to the Elian Gonzalez ? the boy at the center of an international custody dispute. Ten years after US authorities sent him back to Cuba, a Cuban government website has released photos of the teenager posing among Cuban army soldiers in Havana. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from the BBC’s Michael Voss in Havana.

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