Fidel earned his credentials as a lawyer, and it's worth a close and careful study of his life and that of the others of his gang who went from a dozen crapped-out radicals with a leaky boat to the despotic rulers of a people who've deserved much better for the last four decades
Had the Batista dictatorship that preceded Castros been presasured by the US interests who pulled at least some of Batista's strings, the conditions that allowed the Cuban revolution of the 1950s decade to flourish maght have been changed enough to starve it instead, and maybe Castro could have been the abrogado for poor fishermen and campesinos who'd have someday gratefully given him their votes in grateful return.
Instead he stole Cuba from them, a thief and rapist who may have been a successful criminal, and enough of an efficient one to have retained every scrap of power that came his way. But the sands in the hourglass are running out for him, and he's not going to be around much longer. And if once he's gone he can be successfully replaced, lets see that another Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz does not come along to outdo the original.
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