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Thread #93444 Message #1798422
Posted By: Amos
31-Jul-06 - 11:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Era Ends: Castro Steps Down
Subject: RE: BS: Era Ends: Castro Steps Down
From an earlier BBC article:
"Three weeks before his 80th birthday, Cuban President Fidel Castro has joked that he has no plans to be in power when he is 100 years old.
He was addressing 100,000 people who were marking the anniversary of the start of the 1953 Cuban Revolution.
Mr Castro used his speech to make fun of the US, which has set up a $80m (£43m) fund to "boost democracy" when the communist leader dies.
In power since 1959, Mr Castro has so far outlasted nine US presidents."
None of them will be in power when they turn 100, either. Sic transit gloria mundi. I wonder, though, which things have gotten better in Cuba since Bautista fell, and which things have not.