A few Fidel fun facts on his demise at 90

In 1959, I watched one of the most peculiar sports shows ever, 'Baseball from Cuba' on Channel 7, which broadcast Cuban baseball games, containing several future MLB stars such as Julian Javier. The announcer always pointed out Fidel, whose love of baseball was second to being a revolutionary, who reserved a primo box seat for himself.

Disintegrating actor Errol Flynn, working as a newspaper correspondent covering the revolution while making his bizarre last pic 'Cuban Rebel Girls' with co-star and 16 year old gal pal Beverly Aadland, scooped every professional journalist by getting the only US interview during Fidel's final push and rode into Havana during the January 8, 1959 victory parade.

My brother married a Cuban exile in 1974, who shared her first name Mirta with Fidel's wife.

On more serious note, America's obsession with destroying Fidel because he ended the Mafia's and United Fruit's half century long exploitation of Cuba, remains one of most shameful episodes in my memory of endless US interventions around the world. JFK brought us to the brink of nuclear war invoking the principle that only the US is allowed to put nukes on another country's doorstep. JFK spent his entire presidency trying to murder Fidel. and that obsession may have been a prime motivator in Oswald's murder of JFK. And here we are near sixty years on getting thousands killed changing regimes we don't like...BECAUSE WE CAN.