Adios Caudillo: Fidel Castro Finally Dies at 90 - The Daily Beast

Shortly after coming to power in 1959, a heavily whiskered Fidel Castro informed the American journalist Edward R. Murrow that, “when we have fulfilled our promise of good government, I will cut my beard.” For over half a century the Cuban people waited on the fulfillment of both those promises.

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