Castro Embodies Contradictions of a Movement

Amongst all the predictable wonking, leave it to the Wall Street Journal to print a thoughtful, interesting article about Fidel:

Fidel Castro burst on the world scene in 1959, the very image of a revolutionary, with his beard, rifle and military fatigues.
Nicknamed El Caballo, or the Horse, Mr. Castro seemed to many people to be a "guerrilla prince," the title one of his later biographers gave her book. His oratory moved millions both in Cuba and beyond. His promise was democracy, social justice and economic progress.
But by the time he resigned yesterday as Cuba's president after 49 years in charge of the island, Mr. Castro had come to embody all the contradictions of a movement whose time had past. — JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA