It is a real shame somebody didn't put a bullet in him decades ago, things could hardly have been worse.
I am not a fan of Castros' Cuba but clearly it could be worse. Cuba has one teacher for every 10 Cuban students, compared with one per 15 in the United States. Infant mortality is lower than America's and Cuba has twice as many doctors per 1,000 patients as the US. There is also very little serious crime.
Life can be pretty crappy for the natives of the Carriabean Islands, it is impossible to know how Cuba would have fared if the U.S. backed Batista regieme didn't fall but his wide-scale violence, torture and public executions ultimately killing as many as 20,000 Cubans which never bodes well for the future.
My point however was that such bellicose claims minimize the suffering of real people (victims of Hitler, victims of Osama, victims of genocide) and that that if you look at it objectively it is not so black and white. Cuba has been under a damaging embargo (arguabally causing or significantly contributing to their poverty) surrounded by propoganda from all sides since the 1950's much to to the deteriment of the Cuban people. To get out of the cycle, people in Cuba and the USA are going to have to cut the bullcrap.
