Castro’s half century - Fidel’s legacy undermined by suppression

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford,Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr and Bill Clinton.

Eamon de Valera, Seán Lemass, Jack Lynch, Liam Cosgrave, Charles Haughey, Garret FitzGerald, Albert Reynolds and John Bruton.

They all came and went, proposed policies, won or lost elections, changed their country for better or worse, and all the while Cuba’s leader of nearly half a century endured.