Among the no-shows for Cuba’s recent 50th anniversary celebration of the Bay of Pigs triumph over CIA-backed exiles: Fidel Castro. He wasn’t up to it physically and apologized and begged forgiveness for his absence from Revolution Plaza.
But, no, there was no apology for foisting an ill-conceived, ego-driven, ruinous economic model on Cuba for the last half century.
Castro also praised his brother, President Raul Castro, for proposing term limits (two five-year terms) on all of Cuba’s politicians. Presumably both brothers missed the irony of timing. Term limits for repressive, failed ideologues had been an obvious non-starter for the last 52 years.