Fidel Castro died a year ago.  It was not a shock because there were serious rumors about his health all the time.  Almost weekly, there was a flash out of Miami that the old man had died. During his funeral, a military vehicle (some sort of Soviet Jeep) took his remains to their final resting place. Then the jeep broke down, and several soldiers had to push it. The "malfunctioning Jeep" photo was so amazing that I had to triple-check it to believe it. And so Raúl Castro was left all alone in power with a country that resembles that broken down Jeep! My friend Carlos Alberto Montaner, one of the best Cuban analysts around, looks ahead to Raúl Castro's Cuba and some of the challenges ahead: Raúl is president because that's what Fidel decided.  He may have seemed a mediocre person to Fidel, without savvy and without charisma, but he was absolutely loyal, a virtue that paranoid people value...(Read Full Post)