Current Event Research Paper

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Assignment 1: Current Event My current event is about the current Cuban President, Raul Castro, leaving office in 2018. The brother of famed Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro announced in February that he would be stepping down as President of Cuba in 2018 after his second term. Castro’s announcement came shortly after lawmakers elected him to a second five-year term. He said he would be stepping down in 2018 because he thinks presidents should be limited to only two terms. Castro was officially elected president in 2008. In 2018, he will be 86. Castro took over for his older, ailing brother, Fidel, who he quoted in his 2013 acceptance speech. He said, “Revolution is the sense of the historical moment, to change everything that must change. It is equality and freedom. It is to treat and treat others as human beings. It is to emancipate ourselves with our own efforts. It is to defy powerful forces in and out of the social and national context. It is to fight for our dream of justice for Cuba and the world, the fundamentals of our…show more content…
Raul’s brother, Fidel, was the leader of Cuba for almost 50 years and now another Castro will be in charge for ten. In the U.S. and other developed nations, power switches hands much more often. I am sure there are both opponents and supporters of the Castro’s in Cuba, but it is interesting how one family can lead a country for so long. The people just seem to accept it even if they are living in bad conditions. The lack of complacency and the hunger for improvement on the part of the people is what I think has made America the greatest country in the world for so long. I hope that someday Cuba will become a democratic nation so that the people can live in freedom and choose their leaders
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