Castro to be Replaced by… Castro
CNN tells us Castro resigns as president, state-run paper reports. Actually, Granma is owned by the government, not just run by it, which is a healthier situation than the US where the media is owned by conglomerates and run by the government.
Fidel Castro has resigned so the Party can elect Raúl Castro, the current defense minister, president of Cuba. This is sort of like the Shrubbery resigning so the Supreme Court or RNC [same difference] can replace him with JEB.
No doubt Calle Ocho will have massive celebrations and fire guns in the air and set off some of their stored explosives, but you still can’t buy good cigars legally.
Fidel outlasted 10 US Presidents [OK, 9 and the Shrubbery] and wasn’t forced out, but retired – another millstone…er, milestone in US foreign policy.
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Actually, the oligarch-run conglomerates here in America own both the media *and* the government. The media’s role in selecting who will be our Presidential candidates has been pretty obscene this election cycle, where they deliberately embarked upon a course of “disappearing” candidates such as John Edwards who were not acceptable to the oligarchs.
As for Cuba policy, yeah, what an amazing success the U.S. Cuba policy has been for the last 48 years (snark!). So Fidel dies of old age in his sleep just so a buncha Cuban ex-oligarchs can continue dreaming of the day when they return to Cuba and reassume their rightful place as, well, owners of everything and everybody. It’s as if the former slaveowners of the Confederacy had seen their plantations seized and given to their former slaves and been exiled to Britain after the American Civil War, and spent the next 50 years agitating for a return of their plantations and re-imposition of slavery. Actually, if the Union had actually done that, it would have probably been a lot better for the nation as a whole, since the former Confederate aristocracy poisoned the well of American politics to this very day… but anyhow. Cuba. Astounding success for American foreign policy. Alrighty, then!
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
this will change nothing —– as long as the wonderful senators from No Carolina still need to sell tobacco there will be no trade or anything with Cuba….
Helms kept Cuba in its place to grow the tobacco industry… that is not gonna change
also the GOP needs those Miami Cubans
Come on, Badtux, we have to make Cuba save for organized crime, one of the largest of the “displaced landowners”. Very few of the Miami Cubans would return to the island for more than a vacation if “democracy” flowered tomorrow. The Cubans would look on the Miami crowd the same way Iraqis saw Chalabi and the INC – foreigners trying to rip them off.
The Calle Ocho [Eighth Street] crowd are as old as Castro, DC, and their grandchildren are registering as Democrats. The immigration battle is taking its toll, even on the very favored Cuban community.