Having survived nearly 50 years in power, and 9 U.S. presidents who failed to do so, Fidel Castro takes himself out of the picture. He's stepped aside as Cuba's president (for life) leaving his Brother Raoul and five other men in charge. The U.S. embargo just became even more pointless.
The conventional wisdom is that Raul will move to make changes in the island's way of doing business -- even if not on the social repression his brother became infamous for (at least not right away,) but it's hard to imaging Cuba not changing rather thoroughly in the years to come, as European and Latin American friends begin to open up http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifthe country in the way Cuba's closest neighbor, and worst enemy, could not.
Meanwhile, GWB makes some comment or other about democracy or whatever, that nobody really cares about...
Europe reacts, too, with Gordon Brown pretty much going a "what he said," with Bush:
We can only hope that a new path will open up after this withdrawal and that there will be more democracy in that country.
More about Fidel "the great survivor," from the BBC here.Labels: Cuba, Fidel Castro, news and current affairs |
