He
certainly was one of “a group of fighters who dedicated their best years to
fighting the Fidel Castro regime,” as a Miami television station put it when he
was featured
on its recent “Legends of Exile” series. He was also someone willing to put his
life on the line, and to use violence in service of his ideals, and to direct
his violence against civilians – tourists in a hotel at the wrong place at the
wrong time, or young Cuban athletes on a plane returning from an international
competition – which made him a terrorist too. While many scoffed at the Bush
Administration’s failed attempt to nail him on immigration charges, this was more
than any U.S. Administration attempted to do. He lived out his retirement in
Miami, finding social acceptance in a segment of the community consisting
largely of lifelong sedentary revolutionaries who admired a man of action and had
no moral qualms about his tactics. He died last Wednesday.
Coverage
here from the New
York Times, Granma here
and here,
the Herald,
and 14yMedio.
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