Fidel Castro, B 1927

Communist leader whose 1959 revolution transformed Cuba — and Florida

© St. Petersburg Times, published November 28, 1999

“The most telling sign of the Americanization of the Cubans (is that) so few of them would leave Miami even if Castro were overthrown. ... In less than one generation, returning to Cuba has been metamorphosed from an obsession into a possibility most people don’t even want to consider.”