Touring the Elian Museum

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.14.02 | 9:42 PM ET

More than a year and a half after Elian Gonzalez returned home to Cuba, the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson visited the island to find out how the most famous 8-year-old boy in the world is getting on. Local communist authorities kept Robinson away from Elian and his family, but he did make a stop at the Elian museum. “There are relief busts of Cuba’s great historical heroes, the founding fathers of independence and the revolution,” Robinson writes. “And there is a book of photos from the museum’s opening, with a personal note from Castro: ‘The battle of ideas cannot be lost and will not be lost.’”