NewsMax.com. Friday, Sept. 1, 2000
Fresh from nearly four months of brainwashing, 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez starts school today along with 900 other Cuban youngsters at a newly refurbished school in Cardenas.
Presumably cleansed of any trace of the evil capitalist notions fed to him during his stay with his Miami relatives, Elian resumes his life as a student under the watchful eyes of Fidel Castro’s minions.
According to the Associated Press, his classmates have been warned to treat Elian "just like anybody else,"
"Don't be hanging all over him, The poor kid has had a lot of problems, and everything should be as normal as possible for him now," Luanda Leon, the mother of one of his new classmates, told the AP she and other parents were warned at a meeting this week among teachers and the parents
of Elian's 11 new classmates.
Cuban officials say they will stymie any attempts by the press to repeat the kind of media circus that marked his stay in the U.S.
But they are putting their best foot forward, gussying up the Marcelo Salado school - named for a hero of the revolution - by installing new toilets and water coolers and tidying the decrepit brickwork, ostensibly getting ready for the kind of tightly controlled media event staged to make the
government look like a good and concerned parent of Cuba’s youth.
Since his return to Cuba in May, Elian has been kept under wraps, undergoing psychological repairs. The media has been kept at bay while the boy underwent re-education designed to wash away the corrupting influence of his six months of life in a free country.
Officials are expected to keep the foreign media at bay and allow only friendly journalists access to Elian as he resumes his life as a schoolboy.
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