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Students
place candles around an image of the late Cuban leader Fidel
Castro, at the university where Castro studied law as a young
man, during a vigil in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016.
Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba,
embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of U.S.
presidents during his half century rule, died at age
90.
AP Photo/Ramon
Espinosa
As part of the world celebrates the life of Fidel Castro as a
revolutionary hero who freed Cuba from dictatorship, others are
celebrating his death as a man who was a dictator in his own
right and turned Cuba into his personal fiefdom.
While his legacy will be debated for years to come, nobody can
dispute the impact Castro had on global politics over the past
six decades.
Few world leaders have also had such an impact on global
cartoonists over the years.
And as Cuba prepares for El Comandante’s final send-off,
cartoonists around the world are putting pencil to paper to give
him a send-off of their own.
In Venezuela, whose revolutionary government has been a
close political ally, cartoonist EDO seems to suggest that
neither God nor the devil wanted Castro—a joke some used to tell
to explain his longevity.
Fellow Venezuelan cartoonist Rayma depicts Castro as one of
the last dinosaurs of communist ideology.
Others in Latin America see Castro as a hero who
defied U.S imperialism. This from Brazilian cartoonist
Latuff.
Left-leaning Mexican newspaper La Jornada focused on how
Castro outlived eight U.S presidents and dozens of CIA
assassination attempts. “Mission Accomplished,” the CIA agent
tells the dead U.S. presidents.
Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder goes a step further,
suggesting Fidel also outlived the entire U.S. political
system.
In Ecuador, cartoonist Bonil suggests Cuba won’t be able to
shake Fidel´s authoritarian government, even in death.
Cuban cartoonist Angel Boligan also suggests Cuba will
continue to struggle under the weight of Castro’s legacy.
In Nicaragua, a country run by its own strongman,
cartoonist Manuel Gullien questions what Cuba’s plan for
political transition is beyond Raul Castro, who himself is
85.
Others wonder about the legacy of Castro’s revolution. This
from the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
And this from Swiss cartoonist Chappatte.
In Colombia, Castro is being remembered by some cartoonists
for his positive achievements, including his role in brokering
peace talks between that country´s government and the marxist
FARC guerrillas.
But for many people in Latin America, Fidel was also
another dictator with blood on his hands, in a region that has
had more than its fair share of strongmen on the right and left.
EDO depicts Fidel arguing politics in hell with former rightwing
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. “Your problem was marketing,”
Castro tells Pinochet. “Being leftist was more cool.
Nicaraguan cartoonist PxMolinA also thinks history might
not be so quick to absolve Fidel, as he famously claimed.
But hey, maybe Fidel was right. Argentine cartoonist Nik depicts
Castro sharing a cloud in heaven with deceased political allies
Hugo Chávez and Nestor Kirchner. “I told you the Bolivarian
alliance would come out on top!”
Finally, a few cartoonists couldn’t resist poking fun at
Fidel’s late-life fashion switch from olive drab combat fatigues
to Adidas tracksuits.
Adios, Fidel.
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