Author: Jan Vlcek

Jan Vlcek on the controversial life of the late, Fidel Castro. Miami cheers. Havana in tears. The responses to Fidel Castro's death could not have been more different. While the descendants of those who fled from the dictator's authoritarian regime,to the not-so-distant United States, gathered in streets to celebrate the death of "one of the biggest murderers of the 20th century", people all over Cuba were left in shock after their beloved leader, guerrilla warfare pioneer and father of the revolution had passed away. The enthusiasm expressed by both crowds is a perfect statement of what Castro meant to these people. One man’s criminal, another man’s hero. One would expect Europe, being thousands of miles away from the epicentre of Castro’s activities and wrongdoings, to perhaps offe...