Despot's end: Castro's departure offers hope of change
I T'S hard looking at recent photographs of Fidel Castro and connecting the frail, 81-year-old figure with half a century of brutal despotism on Cuba .
Yet Castro the dictator surely is the enduring legacy — nearly 50 years of cast-iron control, suppressing dissent, retarding Cuba's economic and cultural potential and continuing the Cold War with the United States two decades after it ended everywhere else.
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