The Unbearable ( i.e. Intolerable) Goodness of Cuba

  I did not realize for a long time that Fidel Castro’s mother and father were not married.  That she was his cook on the sugarcane plantation her husband/master owned before they wed and Fidel was given his father’s name.  Fidel knew the evils of the plantation system inside out, which is why he so easily worked with peasants and why he was on their side. Why, when he cut sugar cane with them after the revolution it was not only to show solidarity, but because he knew how. Fidel is the one who ...