What's your best guess on what will happen in Cuba after Castro dies?

[Poiuyt]

It may or may not be the end for him yet, I don't know. Will his brother have the same kind of power as Fidel to maintain that government? Or will there be any kind of change?

[RagAss]

1. They bury him.

[MoseyWalker]

2. see my and others responses here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1784833

[Erika]

6. Elian and his dad willingly went back to Cuba? n/t

[Erika]

3. Then Venezuela adopts Cuba

Turns it into a tourist Mecca and brings prosperity to Cuba.

[htuttle]

4. Huge funeral, and then...

...Cubans in Miami will be disappointed.

[IDemo]

5. A US diplomat will make an investigative mission to the island

to look for weapons of mass destruction or signs of nuclear development. He will return with a disappointing report which the administration will dismiss out of hand. His wife will be outed as a CIA operative by someone in the White House, and no one will take the blame.

Wait, that would all be absurd..

[napi21]

7. His brother will take control. SOS

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. Raul develops a mysterious bird flu-like disease. n/t

[mom cat]

9. He ain't dead yet!

[MoseyWalker]

10. After Castro dies

Americans remember that there is a freaking election coming up in a few months, and Cuba is a freaking island country that has no leverage on that.

Gitmo, and its expansion does have leverage, but I'm trying to limit myself here.

[soothsayer]

11. Key West already has cruise ships lined up for Cuba routes. I

predict CASINOS and other fun things returning to CUBA

[Skink]

12. The cruise industry in recent years has doubled capacity for this.

[lonestarnot]

13. wooohooo. I want to go!

[Selatius]

14. Cuba will be turned into a tax shelter for US corporations

Taxes will be low on the rich, higher on the poor.
There will be weak laws governing business in Cuba.
Those with the most money will buy the most politicians.

It sounds like the US, doesn't it?

[countmyvote4real]

20. A brilliant salacious response. n.t

[davepc]

21. They tried that there already. Then that whole revolution thing happened.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

15. Follow the oil. n/t

[CK_John]

16. I think the Miami exiles will be very disappointed.

I was in Gito, Cuba during most of 59 and remember how bad the squalor of the surrounding area was and how popular Fidel was. He promised change and built schools and hospitals in every village. Nixon was vp and started the plotting that led to the bay of pigs and you know the rest of the story.

The exiles (middle and upper class Cubans who controlled 95% of the land and wealth at the time) think that they can go back and reclaim their old domains.

Not going to happen.

Fidel's brother is not Fidel and will try to rule with an iron fist. Both groups remember 59 and if it were yesterday. I do think it is an opportunity to lift the embargo and get on with normalization with Cuba.

I hope we do something right for a change.

[Octafish]

17. The return of the capitalist gangster robber-barrons, of course.

Cuba will head toward Haiti in terms of concentration of wealth. The USA's kakistocrats and oligarchs and mobsters will together, pillage, plunder, loot and rape and all the rest they do. America is going in the same direction, unfortunately for everybody.

[izzie]

18. They will buy new cars from Japan?

And Bush will claim that 'our way of life' has won out.

[Scurrilous]

19. CNN will run a special report...

..."George Bush liberates Cuba from Communism."

[Codeblue]

22. Who knows?

Anything can happen. People are always putting their trust with the wrong people, and Fidel may just be doing that with his brother. I think Raul is probably just as capable of running Cuba as Fidel is.

The only problem I have with the situation is that Raul is already 75...he'll be leader for what, a year or two? I'd name my successor a younger member of the party if I was Fidel.

[Redneck Socialist]

23. Gambling, prostitution, vacation destination for lots o' 'murkins...

you know, the usual. Exploitation of the masses.

[madrchsod]

24. the european countries will invest even more money

in cuba. china will also increase their investment and influence in cuba. the usa will have very little say in cuba until we drop the sanctions.