premise: ``If it weren't Cuba, the child should go to be with his father,'' said Delfina Miranda, 49, who works at a beauty salon in Little Havana. ``But it is Cuba. That kid will get nothing in Cuba. Well, maybe electro-shock treatment, so they can brain-wash him.''
  Over and over, Cuban Americans said that outsiders who did not suffer under the Castro regime simply could not understand their passions in the Elian standoff.
  As talk on the streets swirled, talks between lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives and government officials crept to an uneventful close.
   In what situation should the kid go to be with his father, according to Miranda?
hypothesis: electro-shock treatment