Christopher Hitchens writes about Cuba's "military coup". He states rather plainly that Fidel was deposed by his brother in a coup. He points to a previous case where a Cuban military official was tried, convicted and executed for corruption and drug trafficking in the span of 4 short weeks. Hitchens proposes that Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez may well have been guilty of the charges but more likely that he saw Gorbachev's Peristroika and Glasnost as models to be emulated and that may be what really got him killed.

Still no word from Fidel and the more time passes without hearing from him, the less likely it is that we will ever hear from him again. Good riddance.

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