I know Castro was brutal alright, though. He was a dictator, like Putin, Stalin, Hitler; none of those 3 have a strong reputation for doing good things... or did any good things.
I don't really listen/watch/read the news, so I haven't heard anything about him from the liberal press, Trudeau, or Obama. I get my news from IMGflip, basically.
Either way, I think we should give Cuba freedom, but I don't think Castro's way of leading Cuba was the right way to go about it.