Fidel Finito

Cuba's bearded Bolshevik is down for the count. Fidel Castro, 81 years old, has announced his retirement from politics after half a century of ruling over the glorious worker's paradise that he created in Cuba - a country that has barely managed to remain afloat with the benefice of Fidel's friend, Hugo Chavez. Raul Castro is expected to take the reins of dictatorial power. Read the Washington Post story here.