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| Cuban leader Fidel Castro resigns |
| 2011-04-19 |
| Fidel Castro has confirmed his resignation from the top leadership of the Cuba Communist Party. He had served as the first secretary in the Central Committee of the Party since its creation in 1965. The veteran leader said he had handed over the functions of the Party to Raul Castro when he ceded power to his brother due to poor health in 2006, though he retained the first secretary title. "Raul knew that I would not accept a formal role in the party today," Fidel Castro said in an article on the Cubadebate.cu website, referring to his absence from Monday's Central Committee elections. The AFP newsagency says his resignation comes as the Party approved landmark economic reforms at its conference in Havanna. These include clearance for Cubans to buy and sell homes for the first time in decades, the cutting of more than a million government jobs and the phasing out of the country's universal monthly food ration. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Uncle Fidel's personal health is believed to be in slow but certain decline since his infamous "fall/trip" before the Media cameras - in any case, + bro Uncle Raul may likely to stay in ruling power thru 2018. IMO the larger picture is OWG-NWO "REGIONALISM" = CONFEDERALISM, i.e. setting up of CARIBBEAN UNION = IMPROVED PAN-AMERICAN UNION, ETC. MULTILATERAL POLITIES + espec CUBA'S NICHE IN SAME, hence the push to initiate MAJOR DOMESTIC REFORMS. Cuba = Quba/Qaba has also always been interested [fickle] in preventing a Soviet-style National, Ideo implosion. * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > CUBA IS NO LONGER A DAGGER AIMED AT THE US. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-19 20:15 |
| #4 Because THIS TIME its going to WORK! Or so say'eth Obumbles the LightBringer! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-04-19 15:19 |
| #3 Castro's Cuba turns it's back on central planning, just as Obama's America embraces socialism (as it is going bankrupt). What is wrong with this picture???!?!?! |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-04-19 14:49 |
| #2 I guess I shall never see my preferred vision of a weeping Fidel, kneeling on the ground, while surrounded by a group of grinning US Marines, feeding him handfuls of his beard. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-19 09:07 |
| #1 He's dead, Jim. Even Cuba is cutting back on the welfare state. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-04-19 06:52 |