Fidel Castro and the environment

    Few are happy with Fidel Castro.  After all, he stole property, embargoes foreign lands, nationalized foreign companies, and assassinated counter number of Cubans.   However, independently of our judgment of Castro as a person, there is no doubt that his action have collectively implied one of the most profound social experiments in history.  Cuba, in some ways, has frozen in time during the last fifty years, immediately suggesting a comparison to Puerto Rico.  I have been told that its shores, in strong contrast to our own, are abundant in marine life.  Merely swimming a few yards from the shore, one can find great quantities of lobster.  In its bays at sunset, one can see dolphin frolicking against the setting sun.  Cuba's stagnation today provides us some images of what has been lost with Puerto Rico's modern economic development.