Ten Years too Soon – My 2006 obituary of Fidel Castro

Nov 26, 2016 by

by Peter Hitchens, Mailonline:

The following despatch from Havana was published in  the Mail on Sunday on 30th July 2006. I think it holds up pretty well.

In Cuba the last Communist God is Dying after decades of Tyranny. But if you thought Fidel Castro was bad, wait till you meet his brother Raul.

Sinister black flags fly this week on the windy seafront of Havana, their mourning colour seeming to foretell an approaching death. In fact the dark banners are part of an obscure propaganda war between Cuba’s communist state and the reviled American diplomatic mission which sits sulkily in the heart of the capital.

But the unintended effect is to make passers-by wonder if they are being prepared for the end of the longestlived dictatorship in the world. Old age has at last stolen up on FidelCastro, who will officially be 80 on August 13.

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