Fidel Castro’s death on 25th November has produced varied reactions from him being called a hero to a monster. Let the facts speak for him.
Cuba (with no billionaire) under Castro is the only successful socio-communal state on earth while some like the mighty USSR, China (which has more billionaire than the USA), Yugoslavia and others have crumbled or adopted capitalism. It has prospered in spite of sanctions, embargoes, bans and Bay of Pigs invasion. Fidel outlived eleven presidencies in the USA and hundreds of attempts to kill him mostly by the USA secret services.
Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined. The health care, education and life expectancy is almost same as the mighty USA with minimal impact to the environment. Cuban medical personnel are the first to respond whether natural disaster like earthquakes, wars, terrorism, technological disasters like Chernobyl, medical emergency like Ebola, etc. anywhere in the world.
In sport, tiny Cuba (13m population) has won more Olympic medals than the total won by all the countries of the sub-continent (1800m population).
Narsibhai Patel
New Malden
