text: Time doesn't erase the past.\n\nAn estimated $850 million in U.S. assets were seized by the Castro in 1960.\n\nThe guy spent his whole life comparing capitalism to imperialism, and at the same time killing thousands of political opponents over that same span.\n\nHe was on the wrong side of the Cold War.\n\nHe had many opportunities to forge a partnership (or mend it depending on your perspective) with the U.S. before the embargo of 1962.\n\n\nBottom line is that a lot has to happen for us to just forget the past and let bigons be bigons.