Fidel Castro : A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

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Summary: Why we should be grateful to Fidel Castro
Review: Fidel Castro has been demonized by American politicians for a generation. There are however several things we should thank him for. 1. He supressed the drug trade. If we had the drugs from Cubans in Miami as well as from Cuba we would have been in a pretty pickle.
2. He stopped the AIDS epidemic in Cuba using simple public health.
3. He brought literacy to Cuba, something states like Arkansas and New Jersey have not yet accomplished.
4. He provided universal health care for people and especially children.
5. He launched a program of vaccination for all Cubans.
6. He supressed prostitution and crime, unlike Las Vegas or Cleveland.
This biography seeks to explain this mysterious man who has done great good but through irrecondite stuborness has allowed forty years of blockade in the name of soverignty. It is worth reading.