Don’t hold your breath:

MADRID, Spain (AP) – A press advocacy group is calling for the immediate release of some 20 journalists serving jail terms in Cuba. Tuesday’s appeal comes five years after the journalists were rounded up as part of a crackdown against dissidents on the communist-run island. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said there are 22 journalists in Cuban jails, 20 of them since 2003. The committee’s coordinator for the Americas, Carlos Lauria, said “This makes Cuba the country with most journalists jailed after China.” Twenty-nine journalists were among 75 people arrested over a three-day span in March 2003. They were accused of working to undermine Fidel Castro’s government and sentenced to long prison terms.

It’s convenient to forget how popular Mao once was among American intellectuals. I suspect that the same will happen with Castro years from now, once the stink of his crimes has become too great for even Hollywood to ignore.