Fidel Castro will forever be a hero to freedom fighters

The late Cuban President Fidel Castro

Several weeks ago, the world lost the last political and moral giant of the twentieth century. After South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the indomitable Fidel Castro was the only truly transcendent figure left from the greatest icons of the last century.

I speak not to diminish any great leaders who are still around — the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis easily come to mind — but no other remaining person from that era has bent the arc of history as sharply as Mr Castro. It doesn't matter what the small-minded Cuban-Americans in Miami think. A good number of them carry a legacy of hate and oppression which the Castro brothers sought to bury on the island. Let's celebrate Fidel.