I really though that he'd die in power. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world...=1&oref=slogin
I know this sounds weird, and I'm not a supporter of Castro, but it feels like an era has ended. Even if his brother or a crony takes over, Castro himself represented the last standing Communist revolutionary. I guess it's the same feeling I had when the wall came down. Sure, there was still a USSR after that, but it no longer mattered in the way it had.
It's the complete and total end of the Cold War.