Bag's Rants

A well thought out succession plan.

I was reading this article about Castro's designated successor being his 75 year old brother. Castro at 80 is clearly thinking ahead to when he will be too old to run the country and he wants to leave his legacy in the hands of someone younger and more able to keep the revolution bubbling along for a new generation. He clearly has not thought this through. I hope this is just a feint to keep his real successor hidden from poisoned cigars for a bit longer. Read more here.

The story was really about our American friends sticking their fingers where it is not wanted again. Must surely be classed as interfering in the internal affairs of another country. The US clearly has a problem with poor little Cuba. With the history of the US interfering in internal politics you would think they would just leave Cuba alone. After all Castro has done nothing except wind up the US for decades, or maybe that's it, they don't want to seem impotent and so fed up with this boil on their bum that they perform all these petty sanctions and are funding a rebellion. If they had left it alone and treated Cuba like Mexico Castro probably would have stood aside by now.

posted by Bag @ 8:02 pm