Casa Elian immortalizes boy's short U.S. stay - The Washington Times

Larry Luxner, writing for The Washington Times, reports that the Miami home in which little Elian Gonzales lived in Miami before his forced return to Cuba in 2000 has been kept open to the public, as something of a shrine. His relatives maintain it at their own expense.

I saw Elian Gonzales on television not long ago, in the spotlight at some graduation ceremony, standing at a microphone and spouting that he and his friends were the future of communism, while Fidel Castro himself beamed encouragement at the child.

Castro uses the boy as a poster child rather too often for me. I wonder sometimes how the agents sent in to rip Elian from the arms of his relatives in Florida feel these days about what they did. I wonder sometimes if Bill Clinton and Janet Reno ever kick chairs behind closed doors over how things turned out, or just shrug and let it go?