Fidel Castro left Cuba a green legacy
I don't agree with that title of the article.
Castro didn't do it... the Cuban people did it, and continue on. 
Fidel Castro left Cuba a green legacy
The shortage of fuel also led to a switch to renewable energy sources. There are now nearly 10,000 operating windmills and a growth in solar energy. Biomass generators now supply nearly 15 percent of the country's electricity. There are hundreds of small hydroelectric facilities, mostly in isolated mountainous regions. Virtually all of the country's sugar mills are now powered by waste from the cane. Solar ovens and other appropriate technologies are now commonplace in rural areas.
Significantly, even when cheap oil from Venezuela became available and access to chemical agents improved, these green innovations remained in place.
While many countries have been destroying their rain forests at an alarming rate, Cuba has made a conscious effort to reverse that trend through large‑scale reforestation programs, which include the planting of a rich variety of native species. Forested areas have more than doubled since the 1959 revolution.
One of the byproducts of the reforestation efforts is that Cuba is now a leading biotechnology center for medicines derived from tropical plants. There has been a dramatic increase in the use of herbal medicines and a return to some proven folk remedies.
As Cubans have grown less reliant on centralized sources for energy and agricultural inputs and more reliant on local sources, political decision-making has become more decentralized. Most state farms have become cooperatives run by the farmers themselves, and an increasing degree of political control now rests with democratically elected local administrations.
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/fidel-castro-left-cuba-green-legacy
People line a road as they await the caravan carrying former Cuban President Fidel Castro's ashes in El Maja, Cuba, Dec. 1. (CNS/Reuters/Carlos Barria)
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So glad to learn they have developed wind energy resources, already in use, for some time. So surprised at some of the other energy measures, as well. Superb!
If anyone could do it, it would be Cuban nationals.
Love that photo above. I had read that these crowds turned out all along the way traveled to take home the ashes of Fidel Castro. I'm sure some leftover Cold Warriors would step forward to claim they went there because they were afraid NOT to be there, or afraid that the government would kill their children if they didn't. (Yes, it still seems to take all kinds, doesn't it?)
It's always the right time to point out that at this time in history, Cuban nationals live longer individually, and their infants do live with more health, less disease, less dying than they do here. Some people have never been able to grasp the significance of this well enough to realize what an accomplishment that is.
Will be keeping this article for future reference, by all means.
Thank you, Mika. 
Nothing could be farther from the truth. At the same time, Cubans in Cuba know who is responsible for all things Cuba ... they are.
