Cuba: Political Implications of Chavez’ Illness · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“For several days, millions of people tried to decipher what happened in the hospital room where Hugo Chavez is resting. Because beyond the resilience of an individual, in that room is defined a part of the road map of this Island…”: Generation Y explains how “to care for Chavez is to preserve the presidential seat, to lose him could hasten Raul’s own downfall”; this post at Babalu underscores the point.