Yes Carol. but Fidel has had a long hard battle, the forces of reaction were strong, "democracy" and Capitalism were strong while the West and to some degree the East were free to exploit other nations....It is truly amazing how the charisma and good embodied in one man, has fought and so far defeated the forces of greed and evil....and the battleground has been the minds of his people

The future will be very different in that many changes will be forced upon us through necessity....we will no longer be able to hold up our consumerist society and ever improving standard of living, as a candle to burn the wings of truth and real freedom.

In short, there will be no alternative but for our society, after a period of upheaval, to evolve into an amalgam of small local government bodies quite unlike anything we have seen for hundreds of years
Any take over by forces of reaction would involve a timescale so long term as to be useless. Soon asking people to return to Capitalist "democracy" would be like asking released prisoner to return to the penitentiary.

The biggest problem is as I said,the cure may be perceived as worse than the disease for a generation.....but in truth we have no option.