"Condemn me. It does not
matter. History will absolve me."
— Oct. 16, 1953, at his trial for rebel attack that launched Cuban Revolution.
In the
heart of Miami, ten-thousand Cubans
took to
the street in celebration.
The city
headliners write about his complicated
legacy
while
Kaepernick gets booed at the Hard Rock stadium.
Meanwhile,
wide-eyed American college students
talk about
his status as a liberation icon.
Who
could have known that after the revolution
he would
set up a private marina in the Bay of Pigs
to
house his 88-foot yacht built with wood from Angola.
Or his
private basketball court where it’s reported
he's
never lost a game, likely not due to skill.
In his
hospital he pays two men to live there
permanently because they share his blood type.
An old legend says that there are no dogs or cats
left in Cuba because they were all eaten by hungry
citizens.
Last year Castro flew in a team of veterinarians
to perform a life-saving spinal surgery on his dog Spinee.