The comandante’s last move

The Economist has an extensive analysis on Fidel’s retirement:

Fidel Castro has stepped down as president. But the changes that Cubans yearn for will be slow and stealthy while he remains alive
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Mr Castro, ailing and aged 81, this week announced his retirement from the posts of Cuba’s president and its “commander in chief”. But his revolution has long since become a shell, a work of theatre in which the old trouper rants on even as many in the bored audience desperately want to slip away—if only they could. As the curtain comes down on Mr Castro’s 49 years of rule, change is inevitable. But of what kind and at what pace is far less clear.

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