"Congratulations arsehole, for keeping your people in poverty for 50 years."

"Sanctions by the US and the rest of the world arent helping their poor either. Though i would assume we are just waiting for Castro to die so he cant claim victory for old Cold War BS that should have been over long ago."

"What will Castro be remembered for?
What will nine US presidents from the same 49 years be remembered for?
Any way you look at it, Castro comes out on top."

okay, we don't really support Castro's politics, even though this "revolution" had its good intention at first, it still had to give into imperialism under the revisionist Soviet Union. and the point that mint and zxz555 make here is very good, in that it looks at things, conditions, from the beginning of the story rather than the usual way a lot of people, especially with the reactionary view-point and particularily in the U.S.(but this view-point also surfaces in other nations and Cuba happens to be one of them), tend to look at situations-that is in mid-air and not the original cause of the conditions that cause people to behave in a given manner; the root of the problem(or the "root of all evil". the point is that a lot of poverty through-out the world and within the U.S. itself is caused by U.S. imperialism. and if the U.S. suddenly were to "fall off the top" we might would be seeing the same thing, because of another country that has turned to revisionism after a coup following Mao Tsetung's death. so yes, the U.S. is responcible for a lot of misery in the world, and yes the U.S.'s bourgeois revolution(the American Revolution) really did start all of it, but since then other nations have had to compete with the U.S. imperialism with their own imperialism, so in addition for the much needed revolution within the U.S. we also need an international proletarian revolution.