Fidel and Raul Castro will soon be brothers in retirement.

Cuba is a country in the middle of a generational shift.  The old guard, as typified by Fidel and Raul Castro, is slowly retiring or dying off.  A new guard is slowly moving in to take their place and assume rule of the long-time communist dictatorship.  With new leaders come new policies, and it remains to be seen just what will happen to Cuba in the post-Castro world, but it won’t be long before the country finds out.  Raul Castro will be stepping down as Cuba’s leader in 2018.  For 59 years, a Castro will have run Cuba, but that comes to an end in 2018.

The new leadership appears to be resting in the hands of 52-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel, a longtime politician, former electrician, and one of five vice presidents serving Castro the younger until being elevated to his new position on Sunday.  You have to wonder if things will improve in Cuba under a new leader, or if a new leader will crack down on dissent and freedoms and trigger another wave of Cubans fleeing the country.

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