>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/americas/fidel-castro-obit/index.html
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>>>>Well, the good thing about him living such a long life (90 years) is that he got to see communism fail in many places :)
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>>>>The entire "revolution" thing (as described by some of the mainstream media) is kind of silly. The U.S. is in a far more constant state of change. We've had 11 presidents while Cuba was frozen under Fidel.
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>>>>Big goal of their govt was to prevent revolution "against" the Castros.
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>>>Naturally Cuba would have been a better place if it had remained an offshore haven for US organised crime and dirty money. I'm sure hotels would have been bigger and glitzier and there would have been a flourishng prostitution and drugs trade. Universal healthcare and education standards might have been a bit more on the US model (ok if you are wealthy)
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>>Somehow, I think political prisoners of Castro might see that differently.
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>Probably . But if the US had managed to push Castro out do you think things would have been better or bad but in a different way ?

Clarifying, I am not a communist. I could not be one, I think the idea of Communism is just a nice dream but not possible due to greed and human behaviors.

But without Fidel, Cuba would have been another typical Latin American country that has "democracy" but none of the social achievements of the Cuban Revolution.

Just compare Cuba to any other Latin American country, in Cuba:

-No drugs problems
-Reduction of child birth deaths from 42% to 4% (even lower than the US)
-100 % of Cuban Kids go to school and have health care.
-No kid sleeps on the streets of Cuba, thousands of kids sleep in the street in all the other Latin American countries.
-1 Doctor per 130 citizens.
-1500 of foreign doctors are graduated in Cuba every year, all the expenses covered by Cuba, a rough total of 25,000 doctors of 84 different nations.
-More than 30,000 cuban doctos have been sent in humanitarian missions to more than 68 countries. Almost 600,000 missions.
-Deaf kids, and kids with cancer from Latin America, got free treatment in Cuba.

There are many more achievements to mention, but there were also big problems and things that did not work. But to be able to achieve all the previous things with a criminal blockage from the most powerful country in the world, is impressive.

From Mexico to Argentina we are "free", and I mean that if you are from the middle class up.

Whatever people views on Fidel, one thing is for sure the History will never ignore him!.


Luis