The death of a certain old man with a great white beard.
Oops ... NOT Santa Claus, for those who read that and panicked, but a certain Fidel from Cuba. Mind you, I was born long after the whole missile crisis, and until moving down here, HE was just a history lesson for me and Cuba was just a place so far away ('only in Miami', as Bette Midler used to sing).
Then came the move, and suddenly I became hyper-aware of the inter-relationship between this area and that area just 90 miles away from Key West. So the fact that the Sunday paper was wrapped in a special 12 page section (seen here), or that the normal Sunday morning programming was preempted to cover the Cuban community in Miami banging on their pots and pans in celebration (note ... that's not a dig ... that's what actually happened) is no longer a surprise.
What comes next remains to be seen, but we in the US plan to keep Gloria Estefan and we'd like Elian Gonzalez to come back and our "President"elect would probably like to build a hotel there sometime soon ...
OH COLIN K ... SO OUTSPOKEN:
http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/11/27/colin-kaepernick-addresses-fidel-castro-t-shirt-miami
HERO OR TYRANT? ... ONE VIEW:
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-fidel-castro-myth-debunked-the-death-of-a-tyrant-not-a-hero/
ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO (WHAT -- TOO SOON?):
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/world/americas/fidel-castro-death-raul-castro-cuba.html?_r=0
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