Does Fidel Castro Own All of Cubans Brains

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Hilda Molina says her brain belongs to her. Cuban authorities apparently think otherwise.

Molina, 62, claims a top immigration official gave her the word in 1997 and again in 2000: "You can't leave Cuba because your brain is the patrimony of the state."


Whether Molina's brain is hers may seem like a personal matter. So does the issue of whether she can travel to Argentina to visit her only child, whom she has not seen in 12 years, and meet, for the first time, her two grandchildren.

But Molina is no ordinary Cuban grandmother.

Once a leading physician, Communist Party member and national legislator, the physically slight but intense woman was a shining star in Cuban President Fidel Castro's effort to transform Cuba into a scientific power.

Castro personally backed Molina's effort to start a neurological rehabilitation institute, which under her guidance pioneered fetal tissue transplants and other treatments for patients with Parkinson's and other neurological disorders. But she broke with Castro more than a decade ago and became a harsh critic of Cuba's tightly controlled socialist system.

That's socialism for you,Castro claims he owns everything.Not bad for a guy with over $100 Million in foreign banks.