A child custody case should and would never be resolved at gunpoint, except that William Jefferson Clinton wanted to improve relations with Castro (which never happened). So this boy and his family were sacrificed to Bill Clinton’s temper tantrum.
As a divorced father, I was torn by this case and remain so to this day. The simple fact was that the father had a right to his child, and the courts sided with him consistently. It was the extended family here in the US that made the child a pawn and refused to do what the courts ordered.