Cuba: A Foreign Affairs Flashback

Foreign Affairs drags out Julia Sweig's piece "Fidel's Final Victory" to mark el lider maximo's impending retirement. I commented on the piece last year. I stand by most of what I said in my post. The one thing I failed to anticipate was Castro actually doing the slow-mo transition. It was in fact, brilliantly executed and it can be qualified as being nothing short of Fidel's final victory. Ultimately, however, the true victors will be the people of Cuba because freedom can only be suppressed for so long.