Talk about regrets! A rabid communist who has spent half a century living in Castrogonia after hijacking a plane is now pleading to return to his native Argentina because he finds life intolerable in the Caribbean leftist utopia.

He abandoned his wife and children in Argentina only to live in misery in Castrogonia, where he expected to be hailed as a hero. Alone, crippled, depressed, and starving, the old man is now begging to be returned to his native land, where, ironically, a “right wing” president has just assumed office.

Talk about poetic injustice! Talk about un-magical realism! The person handling his return to Argentina is the son he abandoned back in 1973, for the sake of a life in a communist paradise.

Abridged from 14yMedio via Translating Cuba

With two strokes, a poorly trimmed beard and a nervous wreck, no one would say that the patient Basilio José Mazor, awaiting death in the municipality of Artemisa, is the same young Argentinean who, on 4 July 1973, hijacked a Boeing 737 and forced its landing in Havana. Now, after spending his entire life in the country whose regime he revered, the impossibility of a decent old age has motivated his son to demand Mazor’s return to his native country.