"Today, Elián at home in Cardenas goes to school with two guards who change off every block. 'They won't allow anyone to get anywhere close to him,' an independent journalist who recently visited Cardenas and asked for reasons of safety not to be identified told WORLD. 'Not even the family here can talk to him.'"
http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/04-27-02/opening_3.asp
It is not in Fidel's interest to have the boy live anywhere but with his father. If the boy were not living with his father it would be international news immediately, and Fidel would be handing his enemies a sword. After scoring the biggest pulic relations victory in his entire career through Elian, he is not about to do something that stupid.