The New Yorker on the end of The Beard

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As an era comes to an end in Cuba, what will America do (if anything) about the changes that are happening 90 miles off her coast...

clipped from www.newyorker.com Comment Fidel’s Farewell by Alma Guillermoprieto March 3, 2008 Text Size: Small Text Medium Text Large Text Print E-Mail Feeds Keywords Castro, Fidel; Retirement; Cuba; Castro, Raúl; Dictators; Cubans; Socialists And that it should end so ingloriously! No fighting to the last man at the battlements, no martyr’s surrender to an assassin’s bullet, only a creaking, shuffling exit through the ward’s doors, hospital gown flapping. We are less than a year away from the half-century marker of a most astonishing marathon, but even this artist of endurance must bow to fate and acknowledge that it’s time to go. Vámonos, Fidel: no one is standing in the way.