What did he get for his troubles? Persecution, even as he has one foot in the grave.
The same can be said for the Argentine Generals who defeated a leftist insurgency insurgency when the left was being victorious everywhere else. Their reward? being hounded and arrested by leftist scumbags who just can't stand the fact that socialism has been exposed for the failed ideology that it is.
It is well to heed Simon Bolivar's warning. "El qué hace la revolucíon, ara el mar" (He who makes the revolution, ploughs the sea)