Finally doing something right.
Via USA Today:
HAVANA — Flags throughout this capital city were lowered to half-staff this week to honor Cuba’s late leader Fidel Castro, with one notable exception: the American flag.
The flag outside the U.S. Embassy along Havana’s scenic waterfront has been raised high, even though other foreign embassies — from Canada to Mexico to Venezuela — have lowered theirs. Cuban officials accentuated the point by raising a Cuban flag directly across the street from the U.S. Embassy and keeping it at half-staff.
Roberto Castillo, who credits Castro for providing him the education to rise from a poor farm boy in eastern Cuba to a physics teacher in Havana, called the move “hypocritical.” He said the U.S. can’t claim to be striving for a normal relationship with Cuba then disrespect its beloved former leader, who died Friday at age 90.