Havana house ready for Elian's "readaptation"
Updated 9:48 PM ET
April 17, 2000
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban state TV showed images Monday of a seaside house in Havana
ready to receive
6-year- old castaway Elian Gonzalez if the custody dispute over his future ends
with his return from the United States.
The large house, with a swimming pool, has been prepared as a residency and school
for Elian, his closest family, 12
schoolmates, and some teachers, during a "transition" period of at least three
months, child experts told Cuban state
TV.
"This will be the place where little Elian Gonzalez adapts to his new conditions of
life after his return to the fatherland,"
a reporter said, against images of freshly painted and well-equipped bedrooms and
classrooms inside the house.
State TV said the house would be used for Elian's "readaptation" if he returns soon
with his father under one of two
options being proposed by Havana to resolve the five-month- old custody battle.
Another option, which Washington does not seem too keen on, is for Elian's teachers
and schoolmates to travel to the
United States to create a Cuban-style atmosphere for him there while he lives with
his father and awaits a final court
appeal.
Both scenarios pre-suppose a prompt reunion between Elian and his father, Juan
Miguel Gonzalez, who traveled to
Washington 10 days ago to try and break the impasse over his son's future.
Elian is still living with U.S. relatives in Miami, where he has been since his
dramatic rescue at sea last November.
Elian's mother and 10 other Cubans died when a boat full of illegal migrants
capsized trying to reach Florida.
U.S. government efforts to speed a father-son reunion have been thwarted by the
Miami relatives' legal struggle to
keep custody of the boy.
After Elian's "readaptation" process, whether in Washington or Havana, the boy will
return to his provincial hometown
of Cardenas, on Cuba's northern coast, state TV said.
The Havana house was ready to receive Elian and would provide the "most adequate
medium for him to adapt, and to
make a transition from these difficult moments he has experienced," said a teacher
preparing the building.
The house appeared a good deal grander than the humble cottage on a pot-holed
street in which his father lives in
Cardenas.
The feud over Elian has pitted President Fidel Castro's communist government --
backing the father -- against its
arch-enemies in Florida's large, Cuban-American community. The U.S. anti-Castro
groups back the Miami relatives'
position that Elian should not be sent back to communism.
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