Amid fresh reports that Fidel Castro is at death’s door, Daniel Hannan says that the Cuban dictator was the beneficiary of Western hypocrisy about left-wing tyrants, and of the strategic errors of the 44-year US blockade
Sola mors tyrannicida est, wrote Thomas More: death is the only way to get rid of tyrants.
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