I don't see how a leader that 'cares about his people' would not allow them to leave their island prison, not have democracy, not have access to the internet, not trade with one another.

I don't think he cared about them in any way. He had a totalitarian view of how they should be, and he forced that upon them.

> not have democracy, not have access to the internet,

So foreign countries’ propaganda can overthrow your democracy and put up a complete crazy, due to fake news?

The US has seen how much Russia Today and fake news have influenced this presidential election. Would you want that to become an issue in your country?

This is a serious problem one has to ask themselves.

intentions < results in my book

Can you name a single leader of any stripe anywhere, in the last 50 years, whose results exceeded their intentions? Isn't it the very definition of a politician that they over-promise and under-deliver?

i dont think you can make a coherent argument that castro simply had "underwhelming" results