From Washington Post:
It was around 3 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, when Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista slipped away to the airport and fled his island nation, hauling as much loot as his aircraft could carry. Hours later, the audacious young man whose badly outnumbered guerrilla forces had defeated Batista's army stepped onto a balcony overlooking Cespedes Park in the eastern city of Santiago. It was the first time that Fidel Castro had faced a cheering crowd as Cuba's unquestioned leader. It would hardly be the last.
The turning of the year marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution -- and yet another reminder of wrongheaded U.S. policies that have unwittingly helped shield Castro's revolution from historical trends that long ago should have forced the regime to give way, or at least compelled it to evolve.
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