HAVANA: Cuban President Raul Castro jokingly said Friday he is going to retire, noting that he is nearly 82 and has the right to stop working like anyone else. Castro made the comments as Cuba’s congress is almost certain to elect him to another term today. “I am going to resign. I am about to turn 82. I have the right to retire.
Don’t you believe me?,” Castro said with a smile to reporters. He spoke after accompanying Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the old Soviet cemetery near Havana. Medvedev also had a “brotherly” meeting with aging revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, according to an official statement.
