The (Apparently) Mysterious Death of Reinaldo Arenas

James Kirchick, responding to Kay Steiger's critique of Che Guevara, makes the mistake of not making any relevant points, as others have pointed out. But he also makes another pretty big mistake -- ironically, in pointing out a mistake by Steiger. Kirchick writes:

She does, though, make a key factual error in her assertion that the gay Cuban novelist Reynaldo Arenas “was killed as the result of the government’s prosecution of gays.” He died in Miami, where he had fled, of complications due to AIDS. This, of course, is not to discount the Cuban regime’s incarceration of gays, along with other undesirables, in prison labor camps.

Actually no, it wasn't that either. Arenas killed himself in New York City on December 7, 1990. Why is this so hard to understand?