They escorted the boy to his father in his new residence, the Cuban representative bureau that plays the role of an embassy, for the two countries have no official relations. Like a high level state delegation, protected by bodyguards, this little Cuban group lives in the above-mentioned bureau. Yes, I almost have forgotten, Elian lives there now, too. Out of care for his mental health another Cuban delegation that will also be treated on a high state level will soon join him in America. If he comes back.
Communism is dead for ten years now and the cold war together with it.
Ideological basis for political argues, as we can see in this case, is even better then before. Neither the people in the USA, driven by something that becomes a real hysteria, nor the Cubans, orchestrated by the regime, care about the well being of the boy. And he is just a child.