Tempest in a tea cup. Fidel overthrow a dictator in a popular revolt and cleaned up the corruption in the country. He instituted healthcare and educational reforms so that now they have one of the highest rates of literacy and health in the world. He exported doctors to third world countries. Yet he was a dictator who imprisoned opponents. Painting the man in this overly simplistic evil bogeyman is foolish, neither was he a saint. Trudeau was correct in his eulogy for the man.