Has Fidel built ten miles of luxury hotels teaming with tourist from America? No, he has not. That kind of wealth is hard to ignore. And frankly, 900 million is relatively modest for a dictator. He is a relative pauper compared to dozens if not hundreds of US businessmen.
No, but Batista did and it didn't do him any good, they opted for communism anyway. Cubans have known nothing but communism for 50 years, the generation that remembers a time before communism is dead and buried for the most part. The ones with an entrepreneurial spirit floated on a raft to Florida. The rulers that succeed the Castros are not going to give up absolute power easily. $900 million may not be much to a U.S. business magnate, but it'll go a long ways towards living a life of extreme luxury in Cuba. It goes to show that just like every with other communist despot throughout history, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" only applies to others, not themselves.
