Wishful thinking from an e-mail from Val at babalublog.com:

I saw your link at the Corner on the Elian thing. A lot of people speculate on Elian already being indoctrinated by the castro political machine and that may be so, but, IMHO, Elian has one thing that makes him completely different than his fellow indoctrinated classmates and children in Cuba: Elian has been to Disney World. I know it sounds a bit altruistic I guess, but every child remembers his first trip to Mickey Land for the rest of his life. Elian, I think, is perfectly aware of the differences between Cuba and the U.S.