Word: brotherism
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...show, you worry that there's not enough angst, so you create a 12-step program for fictitious problems. But in reality, you lost a brother when you were 12 and both parents before you were 20. Do comedians have to have a tough life in order to be funny...
RICARDO ALARCON, Cuba's National Assembly president, comparing the delayed public appearance of Raśl Castro, the ailing Fidel's younger brother and at least temporary successor, with the U.S. Vice President's tendency to slip away to undisclosed locations...
...long as Raśl Castro's, and yet rare is the leader as powerful as he who is as mysterious to the outside world. Raśl, who temporarily assumed charge of the Cuban presidency for the first time last week as Fidel recovered from abdominal surgery, has always been there. His brother's designated successor, he was beside Fidel from the moment the two, with Raśl's acquaintance Che Guevara, launched the revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Having joined the Socialist Youth as a university student, Raśl was red before Fidel, who fought Batista...
...then; separate studio photographs of him and Fidel just after their victory show Fidel looking pensive, Raśl beaming with confidence. That was all lost on me in that first encounter. The younger Castro made almost no impression, and I remember wondering how he could be so different from his brother, who filled a room with his presence. All eyes were on Fidel when he entered...
...Castro, who turns 80 August 13 and is, say official communiques, recovering from major intestinal surgery, last week handed provisional power to his younger brother and defense minister, Raul Castro. At first, Miami's politically potent Cuban exiles exulted in the streets of Little Havana. But when the reality sunk in that Fidel is most likely still alive - and that his communist dictatorship may well endure under Raul even if he's not - it also reminded many Cuban-Americans that their once ardent hopes of reclaiming confiscated property could be, as one Pentagon analyst says, "a pipe dream." A report...