Castro is not a monster. What he is, is a disgrace to the cause of freedom he espoused when he was merely a revoutionary trying to overthrow the wretched and repressive and corrupt Batista regime. I don't condemn him for being a Communist: I condemn him for becoming what he most despised, and for betraying his people. I believe that he was once a man of principle when he was in the bush with Guevara. Che remained a man of principle until he was killed in Mexico. Fidel stayed on to become a complete Fascist Dictator, in the name of fear, and to hold his own people prisoner. Perhaps he thought it was the only way to keep the specter of the enormous power of the United States at bay in the beginning, but the time long passed when the rule of the people should have been instituted in Cuba. For betraying his own principles, his friends, his people, and his revolution, Fidel should have a special spot in Hell.