Editorials. Published Friday, July 7, 2000, in the Miami Herald .

Elián González returned to Cuba last week, but he didn't know it. The regime's news reports explained that a one-day visit to his Cardenas hometown was meant to dispel Elián's doubts. The boy didn't recognize the Havana mansion or tony neighborhood where the regime has stashed him and his immediate family.

Elián is right: a mansion isn't the Cuban reality. But isolating him from familiar surroundings apparently is needed to deprogram Elián of counter-revolutionary ideas picked up abroad.

Still, the regime won't quit its Elián campaign. A Cuban dissident group this week denounced the continued politicization; it aptly described the unceasing protests, TV harangues and student indoctrination as a ``toxic cloud'' that blots out free expression. Cubans seeking asylum in Madrid say they've lost jobs and been harassed for skipping Elián rallies. Cuba's regime has sunk to a new low: persecution in the name of a child.

Copyright 2000 Miami Herald

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