With the 50th Anniversary of Castro's ascension to power (January 1st, 1959, to be precise), we spent almost a day of our vacation checking out the 257-minute version of Che, the new film from Steven Soderberg. Even at more than four hours (not including the intermission), it felt incomplete-- both because it was so involving and because so much was left unexplored.
Why did Che care so much? What was his personal stake in the Cuban and Bolivian revolutions? What was the deal with his personal life, anyway? And what happened to Cuba after it became a socialist republic?
We've inched closer to an answer to that last question thanks to a Reuters story which dwells on Cuba after a half centry of Castro.
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