To my dear compatriots..

It’s too late to place a bet on the timing of the retirement of one aging dictator.. But you can still get odds on another this elected representative..

On the day that 81-year-old Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced he would no longer be the country`s President, Paddy Power said it was offering odds of 4/5 on the Democratic Unionist leader to stand down this year, the year of his 82nd birthday.

It’s “an opportunity to make progress towards a peaceful transition to a pluralist democracy..” More on what next [for Cuba] here.


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