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Article: What will happen when Fidel Castro dies? Nothing
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- Fiercely implacable exiles in Miami, perennially
outfoxed bureaucrats in Washington and salivating real estate
developers around the world have spent years trying to predict what
will happen in Cuba the day after Fidel Castro dies. Now I think
everyone knows the answer: nada.
That chuckling you hear is Castro, in his hospital room, having
the last laugh.
The 80-year-old revolutionary icon, evidently at death's door,
appears to have engineered a seamless transition to the post-Fidel
Castro era. Brother Raul Castro presided over last week's 50th-
anniversary shindig with none of Fidel Castro's charisma, but all of
his authority. If any lingering doubts about the de facto ...