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[rice07]

Hi

Title: Raul Castro announces Communist Party congress

The following is an excerpt from the report:

Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that Cuba will convene its first Communist Party congress since 1997-- a gathering that could chart the island's political future long after he and his older brother Fidel are gone.

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He(Raul Castro) said the nation's leadership must prepare for " when the historic generation are no longer around."

Fidel Castro, 81, has not been seen in public since July 2006, when he first fell ill and relinquished interim powers to the 76-year-old Raul. He stepped down as president in February, but officially remains head of the party as its first secretary.

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Much of the Communist Party's leadership consists of men and women who were children -- or not yet born -- when Castro' revolutionaries toppled the dictator Fulgencio Batista and marched into Havana in January 1959.

I don't quite make of the logic of the part in bold in the context. Does it mean ' much of the Communist Party's leadership is inherited all by its(Castro's) family member(s)'? Could you help me with this point? Many thanks!

[Suzanne]

It means that the people who now lead the Communist Party aren't old enough to remember when Castro took over in 1959. Some of them were still children, and others weren't even born! To them, Fidel Castro is just an old man, not a hero of Cuba.

Does that make sense?

[rice07]

Hi Suzanne

But for your elaboration, I wouldn't see this point right!

Much obliged!

Have a nice day!