Is dying at 90 really some sort of losing result? What sort of god punishes someone by letting them make it to 90? What's the message there?
Look at the assassination attempts by the CIA. The mafia. Operation Mongoose. Operation Family Jewels.
Castro outlived all of them.
His rebels annihilated a U.S. backed regime. He was never killed or captured for it.
Socialism didn't take hold (at least not for the poor...), but Fidel Castro outfoxed ALL of his enemies.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
