Mypersonal tinfoil hat theory regarding the kid goes like this. Why would Castro give an airborne rodents posterior region about this one particular kid? Lots of kids leave Cuba each year. Why this one kid? His 'parents' weren't even married when he was conceieved. He was conceived via IVF. (Given Cuba's disastrous healthcare system, how unusual is that?!).
I happened to be watching LifetimeTV (shoot me please), and the story about the fertility doctor in VA (I think) came on. Apparently all these people had been going to this doctor for IVF and amazingly enough all their kids had the same genetic eye defect (lazy eye I think) that caused them to have to wear a patch. One of the moms got suspicious and the end result was that this particularly egotistical fertility doctor had been substituting *his* squigglies for that of the 'real' fathers all along. Perhaps this kid really *is* Castros kid and there is a nasty sort of Boys From Brazil program under wraps down there.
I just know (from what I gleaned from the press, this was pre-freep for me) that in FL courts, any child born out of wedlock would be subject to a paternity blood test in order to determine custody. This might explain why Bubba and friends were so blatant about keeping this particular case *out* of FL family court even though similar cases before, during and immediately after the Elian saga *did* go through FL family court with no problem. They knew (or had been told) that the kid wasn't Juan Miguels. (Yes I know, they are very similar in appearance, but how difficult would it be to tell a 'nordic' child belonged to a particular father if they both had blond hair and blue eyes?) Perhaps this explains why Castro took so desperate an interest in this one child (when he'd drowned a whole boatload of them w/o remorse previously) and used the ADM negotiations to demand something be done to get Elian back in Cuba. If this kid *is* Castros kid he may yet fulfill the prophecy of saving his people.../tinfoilhat