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South Florida Quiet After Castro Resigns

Posted Feb 19, 08 5:16 PM CST in US,  World 

(Newser) – Few South Florida Cubans bothered to celebrate Fidel Castro's retirement today, the Miami Herald reports. Exile leaders dismissed the power shift to Castro's brother Raul as politics as usual for the island nation. "Just because he has given up a title, doesn't mean he has given up power,'' lawmaker Mario Diaz-Balart said.

"When Cubans are not persecuted for thinking, when there is freedom of speech and real elections by the people of Cuba, that will be change," said radio host Perez Roura. Still, about 100 people chanted slogans and waved flags in Miami's Little Havana under the eye of federal and Miami authorities. Neither reported the mass migration to Cuba that is expected if the island ever installs a democratic system.

Source Miami Herald

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Passing motorists celebrate after it was reported, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 in Miami's Little Havana, that Fidel Castro had resigned as president of Cuba. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)   (Associated Press)
Santiago Portal, left, listens to a Spanish language newscast Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 for continuing coverage of the resignation of Fidel Castro as Cuba's President in Miami's Little Havana area. (AP Photo/J....   (Associated Press)
A passing motorist celebrates Fidel Castro's resignation as President of Cuba Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 by playing the tamborine in her car as she drives through the Little Havana area of Miami. (AP Photo/J....   (Associated Press)
Santiago Portal celebrates after word spread in Miami's Little Havana that Fidel Castro had resigned as President of Cuba Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)   (Associated Press)
Santiago Portal listens to his radio for news of Fidel Castro's resignation, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)   (Associated Press)
A small group stages a street demonstration after news that Cuba's President Fidel Castro had resigned Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)   (Associated Press)
A small group of people staged a street demonstration after learning that Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, had resigned Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, in Miami's Little Havana section. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)   (Associated Press)
A Cuban-American holds a sign in the Little Havana section of Miami, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Cuban-Americans celebrated the news that ailing leader Fidel Castro had resigned as Cuba's president early...   (Associated Press)
Miguel Miguel Gomez Beruvides, right, chants anti-Castro slogans in the Little Havana area in Miami, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, as Miguel Saavedra holds an American flag. Cuban-Americans reacted to the...   (Associated Press)
Orlando Hernandez sets up Cuban flags for sale in front of the Versailles Restaurant in the "Little Havana" area in Miami, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Local media gathered at the restaurant after ailing leader...   (Associated Press)
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