Fidel: The truth about his struggle Since the death of Fidel Castro on Nov 25, I have been trying to assess how far sections of the mainstream media (MSM) would go in their vicious campaign to denigrate and demean a leader who had defied the world's sole military superpower just 145km from his small island state. Since the MSM knwe that Fidel's remarkable resistance to US hegemony would be highlighted in tributes to the man, they decided to tarnish his image by presenting him as a womaniser with an insatiable appetite for sex. A number of newpapers played up the ludicrous story of how Fidel had slept with 35,000 women. The MSM is fully aware that it is this fort of scurrilous lie that will divert attention from his stupendous achievements as a principled, resolute champion of justice. This preposterous tale was often justaposed in the MSM with a more serious allegation of how Fidel had crushed dissent when he was in power. While all of us value dissent, its character ...