Why are people getting all bent out of shape over Castro dying?

[Ken Burch]

13. There's no good reason for anyone in Latin America to be "Pro-American".

All we have ever said to the Americas is "we have first claim on all profits that can be taken from your lands, and you owe us obedience".

The man was a dictator. He was also the first leader in Cuba's history to treat the working and jobless poor as human beings, created a universal healthcare system that is still a global model, and made free university education a right.

So it's not as simple as saying he was a bastard and that's all there is to it.

If you want to make sure there are no more Fidels, then start calling on THIS country to allow other countries in the hemisphere to establish egalitarian societies by democratic means, and to leave them the hell alone when they do.

If Sandino, Arbenz, Bosch and Allende(to name just a few)had not been crushed by our nation's sense of imperial entitlement, there'd have been no Fidel, no Che, maybe not even Ortega or Chavez.

Learn from that.