Sooner or later Fidel Castro will move off centre stage. For now, he still dominates in Cuba, even if Cubans in LA are celebrating, seemingly prematurely, his demise.
But what is the "atmosphere" in Havana? We don't often read reports from Cuba so that this article from The Independent is instructive:
"People have been predicting the demise of Cuba's 79-year-old leader for almost the entirety of his near half-century in power, a rule that has been condemned by critics for its brutality to his opponents but celebrated by his supporters for its defiance of the US. But yesterday morning the question of Cuba's political future took on great uncertainty as the country awoke to the news that their leader had undergone intestinal surgery and - for the first time in those 47 years of exercising total power - temporarily ceded control to his brother, Raul."
Read the complete article here - and as they say, watch this space!
But what is the "atmosphere" in Havana? We don't often read reports from Cuba so that this article from The Independent is instructive:
"People have been predicting the demise of Cuba's 79-year-old leader for almost the entirety of his near half-century in power, a rule that has been condemned by critics for its brutality to his opponents but celebrated by his supporters for its defiance of the US. But yesterday morning the question of Cuba's political future took on great uncertainty as the country awoke to the news that their leader had undergone intestinal surgery and - for the first time in those 47 years of exercising total power - temporarily ceded control to his brother, Raul."
Read the complete article here - and as they say, watch this space!
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