Fidel Castro: 2 Leaders Undone by ‘Honey of Power’

HAVANA - Fidel Castro said Tuesday that two of his closest lieutenants had become seduced by "the honey of power," and hinted that they were demoted because their angling for leadership roles in a post-Castro Cuba had become unseemly.

Castro's column provides the first hint of why two of the government's most public faces were abruptly removed Monday in Cuba's largest leadership shakeup in decades. Castro sniffed at suggestions that President Raul Castro is putting his personal stamp on the government he inherited from his older brother a year ago...more

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