Since at least 2002, Cuba has defaulted on all of its international loans and the communist nation is bankrupt. (Yet back in 1997, Forbes magazine reported that Fidel Castro had amassed a fortune of $1.4 billion.) The Castro brothers owe the Paris Club of European bankers $12 billion; Spain, $9 billion; and another $10 billion is owed to Argentina, Great Britain, Japan, Canada and other nations fo