Luis it's all yours, I can't go through this rerun again.
To do that, you would have had to demand that the father be left alone to go get his kid, free from Fidel's goons, and that Fidel release his family in Cuba, and allow them to freely come here if they so desired.
Tell me, from the looks of this story, who is using Elián as a political tool?
Do you think his father could have told Castro that he would rather NOT have a national celebration for Elián's birthday?
The amazxing thing is that in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you still have some f%*$d up notion that we know what the father wanted in that case.