When Castro's name is reviled in his homeland like those of Ceaucescu, Ulbricht, and Stalin in theirs, schoolchildren in Cuba will be learning about their country's long fight for democracy and about the role of a man named Jorge Mas.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Man Who Lived to Save Cuba

The fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 capped a decade and a half during which more than a dozen dictatorships collapsed under various forms of American and West European pressure--from Marcos, Pinochet, Duvalier, Somoza and Noriega on the right to Ortega, Jaruzelski, Honecker, Ceaucescu and Gorbachev on the left.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy