How have the people in Cuba reacted to the news?
Very quietly, very concerned. The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution have been called to increase their vigilance. The army apparently has been mobilized in several provinces. So the Cubans are going to wait and even if Castro dies, we’re dealing with a Castro dynasty now. We’re just going to have to wait. We don’t know how Cuba is going to be the day after Castro is dead. When he dies, what do you think will happen in the short and medium runs? In the short term, something along the lines of what you have now, which is a military government. It’s interesting that Fidel, in his letter, not only transferred power to Raul but issued specific orders mentioning a number of other generals, and they are hard-liners in Havana. That’s immediate. After that … it’s going to be very tricky, because we don’t know how many people among the leaders of the government think differently than what they have said until now. What would you like to see happen in Cuba? The Czech model — a trans
