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Caribbean-Latin America
Cuba's Raul Castro Announces Retirement In 5 Years
2013-02-25
[Ynet] Compañero Raul Castro
...Fidel's little brother...
announced Sunday that he will step down as Cuba's president in 2018 following a final five-year term, for the first time putting a date on the end of the Castro era. He tapped rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel as his top lieutenant and first in the line of succession.

The 81-year-old Castro also said he hopes to establish two-term limits and age caps for political offices including the presidency, an astonishing prospect for a nation led by Castro or his older brother Fidel since their 1959 revolution.
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#1  There's an optimist who doesn't mind buying green bananas five years out.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-02-25 10:23  

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