Castro and Cuba

“He has been the great survivor of world politics. When Fidel Castro marched into Havana in January 1959 at the head of his troop of bearded revolutionaries, Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev were all in power, and the Beatles were yet to come.”

This week’s Economist focuses on the Castro legacy

“Mr Castro, ailing and aged 81, this week announced his retirement from the posts of Cuba’s president and its “commander in chief”. But his revolution has long since become a shell, a work of theatre in which the old trouper rants on even as many in the bored audience desperately want to slip away—if only they could. As the curtain comes down on Mr Castro’s 49 years of rule, change is inevitable. But of what kind and at what pace is far less clear.”

Read more here in the Economist