It helps, too, that he died young, at 39: as a member of the Cuban gerontocracy he would hardly have become the James Dean of world politics.

• 他39岁英年早逝的事实也有所帮助：事实上如果作为现在古巴老年政治结构的一份子，他很难成为世界政坛的詹姆斯?迪恩。