A five-decade struggle to retrieve the body of a controversial 'yanqui comandante' (Yankee commander) who was executed for plotting to overthrow Fidel Castro after helping put him in power could finally be near and end.
With diplomatic relations softening between the US and Cuba, the family of William Morgan say things are 'looking good' to have his remains returned.
'My lawyer went to Rome and got a letter to Pope Francis, asking him to help, and it looks like the pope is going to do it,' Morgan's widow, Olga Goodwin, told reporters from her Ohio home.
Two possibilities: Morgan was a victim of an overnight U.S. policy change or, his usefulness to the fledgling communist gov't had run it's course.