The Clintons would have been OK with Elian staying absent any other factors, but they got a better offer from Fidel.
True-— remember it was “She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie.... Cocaine!” was what the Castros could offer the Bill Clinton powder monkey vacuum nose and the dem cash political machine back in Arkansas. The Castros were major illegal drug transshippers. Their money in the Cuban Bank in Switzerland... probably still is, along with everything else they have raked off.