Six-year-old Cuban boy Elian Gonsalves has to perforce remain in the US despite worldwide protests and a decision by the American government to send him bak to his homeland. However, the parliamentary committee of the US has now put spokes in the return by raising the question of legalese by which his homecoming has been necessarily delayed, thus deepening the crisis without solving it.

The Republican member Dan Burton has categorically said that Gonsalves cannot return to Cuba unless the court case is disposed of and said that while everybody was aware of the trauma that the little boy was facing, this was a serious political issue which could not be handled by economic parameters alone.