Perhaps this letter posted on Granma's web site would be clicked
widely by an army of non-English speaking surfers.
That could be just an amusement tactic to be part of history, but the icon who
spurred the mouse movement has seen unparalelled adulation, survived assassination attempts without parallels from world's military might and curiously enough is even reviled by a section of his own people-- Cubans.
Castro is an enduring symbol of resistance, thwarting the machinations of 9 American presidents to topple a tiny island regime, defying the mightiest military in the world and outliving the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which once rallied behind him and later crumbled to their cold war era common enemy.
widely by an army of non-English speaking surfers.
That could be just an amusement tactic to be part of history, but the icon who
spurred the mouse movement has seen unparalelled adulation, survived assassination attempts without parallels from world's military might and curiously enough is even reviled by a section of his own people-- Cubans.
Castro is an enduring symbol of resistance, thwarting the machinations of 9 American presidents to topple a tiny island regime, defying the mightiest military in the world and outliving the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which once rallied behind him and later crumbled to their cold war era common enemy.
As Castro decided that being even a nominal head of a nation mostly shadowed by his larger than life halo itself is a daunting physical task, Cuba, as a nation, may not follow the trajectory of a directionless kite.
It can still stay afloat, as Castro did in testing times. It would not have been possible for even Castro to show such cathartic defiance against giant odds had it not been for Cuba.
In his letter to fellow countrymen, Castro does not say good bye. His maverick legacy cannot attempt to bid adieu to a valiant dream.
And the legacy of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz can only be called Cuba.
No other name suits it.
