Castro, as the author has stated, will be remembered by most as a warning, this because of propoganda from the MSM.

On the other hand I will remember Castro as a man who held out against overwhelming odds from a much more evil empire, the US, the real empire with more blood on its hands since WW2 than Pol Pot, Nazi Germany and all those other pariahs we in the West fail to mention as a result of our continued colonialistic ways

Rest in Peace I say

Seriously?

Castro ran a hard-line dictatorship where those who criticised were banished or killed.

If the best that could be said of him is that he was not as bad as Stalin, then that is saying little.

That the Batista regime may have been worse, doesn't absolve Castro from the repression he forced on the people of Cuba.

Castro was scum. He should have died long ago. Cuban-Americans are certainly celebrating his death, and so should everybody else.

This piece shows the depth of self delusion the left have to practice to be able to live with the evil of it's icons.

Surely some of the more intelligent lefties must know what rubbish they push.

Has-been ; The article points to the human rights abuses. Castro had his 'good side' and his 'bad side'. We should remember both. Castro persecuted dissidents terribly at times. That's not a model or example we should follow ; But when judging let's apply the same standards to the rest of the region. eg: Think of the civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador ; the genocide in Guatemala ; the death squads and assassinations ; the 'disappearances' of thousands in Chile. Think of US interventions in all those instances too. I can more readily accept the criticisms of Castro if those doing so do so even-handedly.

A friend of mine also pointed out that Castro severely harassed sexual minorities for a time. Which should also be considered in our evaluation.

Though apparently he apologised and repented of it later.