wow factor

I'm sure Castro's tombstone/monument will end up with the word Tyrant scratched into it and for good reason, however I was struck by one section of Guy Rundle's opinion in Crikey. Subscription required

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For Castro, Guevera, and anyone else south of the Rio Grande, politics has to be understood in terms of three key events – 1954 when the CIA overthrew the elected and moderately left Arbenz government of Guatemala, plunging that country into decades of dictatorship and civil war, leaving a quarter of a million dead, 1961 when Kennedy backed a bunch of gangsters to take back Havana - and the other september 11, 1973, when the Allende government met the same fate.

Yes, they even tried the exploding cigar trick.
The Cold War strategies of America and Russia have left a fantastic people in an ideological and economic limbo for too long.

Lets hope common-sense prevails post Fidel.