Fidel Castro, now former president/ dictator of Cuba, resigned this morning. Though he hasn't been acting president since summer '06 (younger brother Raul has been working in his place), he still has about 40+ years of a truly interesting (if nothing else) legacy.I mean, who else spiked literacy rates and provided excellent health care while simultaneously dragging his country into the Cold War, imprisoning thousands of citizens, and killing off dissenters? He's been in power for almost 50 years, since he overthrew Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship in 1959. And damn, there were like, 15-20 years or something of Batista before Castro. And when Batista was elected in the '40s, that was, like, the first non-forceful election they'd had in 20 years! That's nuts! I wonder what all this means for Cuba... Maybe nothing much because Raul's still around (he's known to be a hardass), but what do I know?
President Bush released a statement this morning from Rwanda (yeah, I'm kind of surprised he's there, too), going on and on about "democracy" and stuff like that. But that's not really exciting. What's exciting is seeing how the media handles an actual news story that doesn't involve Britney Spears or Hillary-Obama bickering.
Wolf (Blitzer, baby) and I are going to have a time today in the Situation Room!!!
Posted by: Brittany
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