Of Cuba, Boz blogs: (via Beatiful Horizons)
Raul vs. Hugo. If there is an international issue, it's the question of who will inherit the global legacy/mythology of Fidel once he is gone. Fidel, in spite of his decades of dictatorship and human rights abuses, has a strong international presence thanks to his ability to make a fool of US policy for several decades. I'll make an offbeat prediction here too: Raul doesn't want it.
While most of the corporate media's post-Fidel attention will be placed on the creepy partying happening in Miami, I'll be more interested in the reaction of Hugo Chavez, as his coronation officially begins.
UPDATE: FInally, the pefect Cuba post:
Okay, you're 20 years old. Fidel is 80. Unless the state of Florida begins executing people for bad taste (and what a slaughter that would entail) you're almost certain to outlive him. Celebrating a polyp seems a teensy bit overdone.
And look, the US of A didn't give a shit about how Castro treated dissidents, anymore than we cared how Batista did, right up until Fidel started appropriating the property of United Fruit and offering compensation based on the absurd valuations it had placed on its holdings for tax purposes. Get it? The source of our disagreement with Fidel was actuarial tables. Frankly, that the expat Cuban community in south Florida has cried for Castro's head for fifty years while saying nothing whatever about the exploitation of Cubans by foreign companies before he came along was a good enough reason to ignore it.
From Doghouse, of course.
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