[secretagent]

One thing, and one thing alone, allowed the old monster to get away with it: Washington's 44-year-old economic blockade. All countries rally round their leaders when they are at war, and Castro's Cuba has been semiofficially at war since he seized power. The U.S. sanctions allowed him to escape blame for his mismanagement.

Sounds plausible.

[GMMAC]

"Sounds plausible."

Maybe but, I'm only with the author insofar as his advocating America shift its Cuba-related policies once - if only for the inherent proper symbolism - the old tyrant is dead.

I'm one Canadian who has consistently disagreed with our own shamefully hypocritical, unprincipled & opportunist policies with respect to both Castro & his Marxist slave state & who has always fully supported America's Helms-Burton Act.

Bottom line: aside from his literally countless crimes against humanity at home & as importantly his abetting them abroad, Castro is a common thief & the U.S. has been quite correct its on-going refusal to effectively reward as much.

To me, once he's dead, your country's subsequent dealings with the Cuban people are another matter entirely.