Today’s Must ReadVictory! Only 47 years after the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro has toppled from power. Or resigned to hand power to his brother. In any case, he’s gone.
You can read his resignation letter here. In it, the relic of the Cold War looks forward to the future:
Fortunately, our Revolution can still count on cadres from the old guard and others who were very young in the early stages of the process. Some were very young, almost children, when they joined the fight on the mountains and later they have given glory to the country with their heroic performance and their internationalist missions. They have the authority and the experience to guarantee the replacement. There is also the intermediate generation which learned together with us the basics of the complex and almost unattainable art of organizing and leading a revolution.
The path will always be difficult and require from everyoneâs intelligent effort. I distrust the seemingly easy path of apologetics or its antithesis the self-flagellation. We should always be prepared for the worst variable. The principle of being as prudent in success as steady in adversity cannot be forgotten. The adversary to be defeated is extremely strong; however, we have been able to keep it at bay for half a century.
On the adversary’s side of things, the scramble begins. President Bush has chimed in with his hope that Castro’s move will usher in a new era. And it’s a prime opportunity for primary candidate jockeying — already the calls are coming for the candidates to outline a new approach to Cuba.
