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Cuba’s Raul Castro says new term will be last

HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro announced Sunday that he will step down as Cuba’s president in 2018 following a final five-year term, for the first time putting a date on the end of the Castro era. He tapped rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel as his top lieutenant and first in the line of succession.

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82...and his last term...wow - was he planning on another term at 87? First the pope  - now castro - democracy is on a run