'Peaceful transfer' of power to Cuba - Times Online

By Thomas Catan CUBA has begun a peaceful succession of power from Fidel Castro, a Cuban official said yesterday, confounding US hopes that his regime would collapse. The US “had not expected that a peaceful succession was possible,” Roberto Fernández Retamar said in Havana. “A peaceful succession has taken place in Cuba.” Señor Fernández Retamar, a leading Cuban intellectual and member of the Council of State, was the first official to say that a succession was ...