There is nothing in the article to support the claim, Steve, that the father gave up any custody rights. He is described as permitting the mother to take the child to the US. That is a far cry from giving up parental rights which I doubt he would do.
If he is still the parent of the child, a judge would have to determine that it would harm the child to return him to the father in Cuba. If we take the "Cuba" factor out of this conservatives would screem at the "nanny state" taking a child from its legitimate father. Imagine instead of Cuba this was the common scenario of one parent moving to another state. The remaining parent doesn't abandon rights as a parent by consenting to this.
We need to get over the fact that Castro is in charge of Cuba for now. We may not like it, they may even not like it, but our hatred has severely infected our political life severely for decades including getting Bush elected in 2000.
This case is a slam dunk in favor of the father but for politics. Of all places for politics to stay the hell out it is the family.
