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burn in hell dictator scumbag.
also there is still time to go to Cuba before it's all modernized.
Amuricans... Dismissing all socialist leaders as dictators is so American... You know who else was a dictator? Batista. However Amurica didnt mind at all because that dictator was an imperialist puppet of the US.
What about Cubans?
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/miami-cuban-americans-celebrate-fidel-castro-death-161126064101470.html
Keep in mind that they're the ones who left... obviously, people don't leave their countries "just because", but the US is close enough, and an unfair neighbor to compare yourself with. Who are Cuba's neighbors in the Caribbean? How are they faring in regards to healthcare, illiteracy, homelessness, poverty, starvation, even? Even the USA are not so peachy in some of those aspects... The United States first actively brought Cubans in through airlifts and boat lifts, then made special allowances for those who fled Cuba, and Cuba only. That's an interesting policy, especially considering the world of today...
Fidel was a strongman and a dictator, no doubt about it, but the revolution did great things for Cuba. Without strong partners like the late USSR, and the blockade still in place, no wonder the country went through a harsh lot. The island has been changing during the past 10 years, especially with his brother's rule... count me in the bandwagon of people who wish they could have visited Cuba as it was still itself. In the end, the change will come not after the bang of a successful CIA assassination attempt, or through a Bay of Pigs 2: Electric Cubaton invasion, but with the whimper of an opening. The embargo will be over soon (will it now?), foreign investment and companies and capital will soon flow in, and the allure of joining the consumer world is too much and too real. One saying about the Castro bros is that, with a whistle, Fidel could make a noise that Raul couldn't make with a orchestra. The farmer's eye fattens the pig, after all.
As for Fidel... I can't feel truly sad about his death. He lived one hell of a life in years and in achievements, and was a true revolutionary whose name will never be forgotten. Fidel was indeed a brute, a man of many faults, but a symbol against imperialism, poverty, unequality, not only in Cuba, but worldwide. For those looking for saints, Fidel is definitely not a model to be followed. But it's my belief, to quote a great man who left us today, that history will absolve Fidel Castro.