We first ran this piece about 8 months ago, when Obama took his "historic" trip to Cuba. Needless to say, my family's pretty happy to hear that Fidel Castro, the mass-murdering tyrant who stole so much from them, is dead. Herman suggested I re-post the piece today.
My wife is Cuban. If we're getting technical, she's Cuban-Italian, but the point is that her father was a Cuban gentleman who - until the Castro brothers took over - owned a hospital in Havana.