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Fidel

After 46 years, Castro seems to have the staying power that the exiles didn't give him credit for but then he is over 70 and so is his brother Raul the man slated to take over. Who knows what will happen next? Read more on this never-ending story here:

New York Times: This city where raucous demonstrations by exiles were once as regular as summer storms has seen few lately. One theory is that the people whose life's mission was to defeat Mr. Castro and return to the island one day - those who fled here in the early years of his taking power - have grown old and weary."We are all exhausted from so much struggle," said Ramón Saul Sánchez, leader of the Democracy Movement, an exile organization that once ran flotillas to the waters off Cuba to protest human-rights abuses. Mr. Sánchez, 50, also belonged to Alpha 66, an exile paramilitary group that trained in the Everglades, mostly in the 1960's and 70's, for an armed invasion of Cuba, and later protested around the clock outside Elián González's house. Now, he said, he prefers less attention-grabbing tactics, quietly supporting dissidents on the island from an office above a LaundromatClick here: Florida's Zeal Against Castro Is Losing Heat - New York Times