{"id":6258,"date":"2016-11-28T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2020-10-29T07:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:08:53","slug":"mixed-feelings-on-fidel-castros-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/6258\/mixed-feelings-on-fidel-castros-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Feelings on Fidel Castro&#8217;s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/rstone\/\">Ralph E. Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 28, 2016<\/p>\n<p>On November 25, 2016, Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, died at age 90. \u00a0The Cuban government will observe nine days of mourning. After two days of observances in Havana&#8217;s Revolution Plaza, Castro\u2019s ashes will be transported across the country to the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. The final mass and ceremony will take place\u00a0Dec. 4, and his ashes will be interred in the cemetery of Santa Ifigenia.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2003, my wife Judi and I \u00a0took a 12-day trip to Cuba with Elderhostel. \u00a0Elderhostel was licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department to conduct People-To-People tours to Cuba. Its license was not renewed for 2004. \u00a0During our trip, we visited Havana, Vinales, and Santiago de Cuba. \u00a0We thoroughly enjoyed our trip; we learned a lot and enjoyed meeting the people. It certainly helped that Judi is fluent in Spanish, which allowed for better interaction with Cubans.<\/p>\n<p>In April 1959, shortly after taking power, Fidel Castro traveled to the U.S. The Eisenhower administration could have embraced him, offering him economic assistance. \u00a0But remember this was during the Cold War and Castro smacked of socialism\/communism. Eisenhower snubbed him. He met instead with Vice President Nixon for a few hours. No economic assistance was offered. The next year Castro turned to Russia for economic assistance and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>Under Castro,\u00a0Cuba improved significantly in education, medical care, religious tolerance, and racial relations. \u00a0However, opponents of normalization with Cuba\u00a0accuse the\u00a0Cuban\u00a0government of systematic\u00a0human rights abuses, including arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial execution.<\/p>\n<p>We applaud President Obama&#8217;s move to normalize relations with Cuba. \u00a0Making a bit of history, this year the U.S. abstained for the first time in an annual UN General Assembly condemnation of the half-century-old American trade\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">embargo<\/a>\u00a0against Cuba. \u00a0However,\u00a0only Congress can annul the embargo, and it is not likely under a Republican-controlled Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Full normalization must include the return of Guant\u00e1namo Bay to Cuba. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platt_Amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Platt amendment<\/a>\u00a0to a U.S. Army Appropriations Bill of 1901 gave the U.S. the right to intervene militarily in Cuban affairs whenever the U.S. decided such intervention was warranted.\u00a0\u00a0Cubans were given the choice of accepting the Platt Amendment or remaining under U.S. military occupation indefinitely. \u00a0In 1903, the U.S. used it to obtain a perpetual lease of Guant\u00e1namo Bay, a blatant example of U.S. gunboat diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>I have mixed feelings about Fidel Castro. \u00a0Castro was like a welcome guest for dinner, who overstayed his welcome.\u00a0\u00a0The revolutionary became a dictator for life. \u00a0But consider that the U.S. got along fine with\u00a0Fulgencio Batista\u00a0the thug Castro overthrew. \u00a0Then Americans were free to frolic at the nightclubs, casinos and beach resorts during Batista\u2019s thuggish regime. \u00a0But then Batista was in our pocket, whereas Castro was not.<\/p>\n<p>With Fidel Castro&#8217;s death, I don&#8217;t imagine much will change in Cuba. \u00a0However, his brother\u00a0Ra\u00fal Castro is 85. \u00a0What will happen after he dies?<\/p>\n<p>Most of Obama&#8217;s normalization policies are by executive order, which Trump has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/16\/politics\/donald-trump-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened<\/a>\u00a0to reverse\u00a0until Cuba grants religious and political freedom for the Cubans and the freeing of political prisoners. \u00a0Isolating Cuba, however, has not worked. \u00a0Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959 and then handed power to his brother\u00a0Ra\u00fal in 2008. \u00a0Thus, the Castro brothers have outlasted eleven U.S. presidents and would probably outlast a Trump presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Castro, Cuba improved significantly in education, medical care, religious tolerance, and racial relations.  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