Age, illness, disagreements with his brother Raul Castro, and a changing world finally did what no one else before could do: get rid of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The communist strongman and Russian toady during the Cold War leaves a trail of executions, starvation, and tyranny.
Fidel's reign brought the Cuban missile crisis, when President John F. Kennedy faced down Russian leaders and Castro and stopped the planting of missiles on Cuba just 90 miles from Miami, Fl. It also brought tens of thousands of refuges, some dying enroute, to Florida's shore, huddled on anything that would float-or tragically, almost float.
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