D.C. The boy's father, Juan Miguel, his stepmother and half-brother were also staying inside the compound, known as the White House, in Miramar, a neighborhood that before the revolution was home to the capital's wealthy elite. But it was impossible to get a glimpse of the child whose comings and goings were often a fixture of both Cuban and Miami television broadcasts during the international custody dispute that surrounded his seven-month stay in the United States.
Mafia is the term the Cuban government uses to describe government opponents.
School has not yet let out for the summer in Cuba. Government officials here have long complained that the law, which lets Cubans who reach U.S. land claim permanent residency, encourages people to take risky journeys across the Florida Straits. The child and two others survived.