Time, and Fidel Castro?s own body, are finally succeeding where brave Cuban patriots and the CIA failed. For a despot, relinquishing power, even if it?s only “temporary” and to a close relative, is to be feared more than death.

To themegalomaniac, death at least brings continued adoration in all its vulgar trappings ? bad omnipresent portraits and overbearing statues, a burial site befitting his place in history ? which, of course, revolves around him.