After ruling Cuba and dodging over 600 assassination attempts by the United States and surviving 10 U.S. administrations, Castro is calling it quits.
His brother Raul, who is only five years younger than he, is to assume the role of president and Commander-in-Chief. Raul Castro has been running the country for quite some time already, and still there are no signs that Cuba's government will make any changes any time soon. Exiles and descendents of exiles and refugees are salivating, but the odds of them ever reclaiming the property that was taken from them is a very slim chance at best. It is because of their voting power in Florida that no U.S. president has been able to try to make amends with Cuba.
Cuba is one of the last surviving communist countries after the fall of the former USSR.
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