The Long Goodbye
Fidel Castro Thinks He'll Go For A Walk. He Feels Happy! He Feels Happy!
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Contra Tyrannum | Cuba | Cuba Libre | Dictatorship | Fidel Castro | Totalitarianism | Tyranny — Comments (1) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
It may have just gotten a little shorter:
An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.
The end of Castro's rule - the longest in the world for a head of government - frees his 76-year-old brother Raul to implement reforms he has hinted at since taking over as acting president when Fidel Castro fell ill in July 2006. President Bush said he hopes the resignation signals the beginning of a democratic transition.
"My wishes have always been to discharge my duties to my last breath," Castro wrote in a letter published Tuesday in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma. But, he wrote, "it would be a betrayal to my conscience to accept a responsibility requiring more mobility and dedication than I am physically able to offer."
My RedState colleague, Erick Erickson, believes that Fidel Castro will not survive the Bush Administration. I can only hope that Castro lives long enough to see Cuba regain its freedom at long last. Given the state of his health, that would not take long and beyond that, I couldn't possibly care less what happens to the despicable, destructive tyrant. Cuba cannot be rid of him too soon.
not only Castro is gone, but democracy is introduced. Probably not within my lifetime, by I have hopes.
Oh, and if he survives this administration, I would correctly plead that it is because we do not have a dictatorship (thank goodness).
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