For me, this is no longer a question of child custody (if it ever really was--INS documents seem to indicate that Lazaro always intended to return Elian to his father)--

The story just keeps careening onward--there were to be congressional hearings, and now suddenly the are off-The Municipal gov't in Miami is going into Meltdown, and the Republican Presidential Candidate is now at loggerheads with his party leadership--

What is going really going on here? What are the forces at play?

The key thing is that nothing really out of the ordinary happened, at least not since the boat sank.. Even the "bad guys" haven't done anything really bad, and what they did do has been pretty much undone--and yet everybody is taking up sides and going crazy--and even worse than before--

It is a puzzlement--