The Miami Herald
February 4, 2001

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.