While many old-timers pack up their bags and retire to Miami, the (still) Cuban president Fidel Castro, in a letter read on Cuban tv last night, gave fodder to the rumors that he is out of active politics.

“My elemental duty is not to cling to positions, or even less to obstruct the path of younger people, but to share experiences and ideas whose modest worth comes from the exceptional era in which I lived,” Castro wrote in the final paragraph of the lengthy letter, which mainly discussed the Bali summit on global warming.

81 year old Fidel has been hinting at the same thing for a while now. And while he hasn’t been seen in public since last summer, he is still legally the head of state in Cuba, with Raul acting as the public face.

“I promise that I will be with you, if you so wish, for as long as I feel that I can be useful – and if it is not decided by nature before – not a minute less and not a second more … Now I understand that it was not my destiny to rest at the end of my life.”

We haven’t heard the last of Fidel, yet.

Via / The Guardian