Castro makes a small change - Good Friday now again a holiday

[Takhisis]

As posted in the NY Times (on't click if you're not a paying subscriber as they've instituted a limit on how many articles you can view per month):

Benedict asked that Good Friday be declared a holiday, as Christmas was after Pope John Paul II visited in 1998, and for the church to have its own schools and broadcast outlets.

For now, my local newspaper Clarín reports that just for this year, as an exception of course, Good Friday will be a holiday. If they follow the pattern of 1997-98's Christmas becoming a holiday it's a very small sign of change.

What happens when the Castros are gone?

 

[Tee Kay]

What happens when the Castros are gone?

Hypercapitalism. Just like the wave of hypercapitalism in Eastern Europe after 1989, and the wave of hyperislamism after the Arab Spring. Castro will be reviled, the country's revolutionary history denounced as a lost era.

And then, twenty years later, people will nostalgically look back on the Castro Era as a golden age.

 

[Takhisis]

Hmmm, don't think it'll be that quick as, after all, it is an island. But I don't think the Castro children will be able to pull off a Kim, the people in Cuba haven't been brainwashed like that.