Castro's legacy will be less romantic than that of Robin Hood

Like his boyhood idol, Benito Mussolini, Fidel Castro dragged his country off into an abyss in his pursuit of glory. His red terror and ill-conceived economic policies reduced the once thriving Cuba into a shell of its former self. Contrary to popular belief, Castro played only a secondary role in toppling Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Batista’s days became numbered not when Castro organized his band of rebels in the Sierra Maestra but rather when Cuba’s upper and middle classes grew weary