Fidel Castro to retire? {Gadling}

Dec 18th 2007 4:24PM It's not the US embargo that has them in dire straits. There is plenty of tourism to Cuba from other locations (including Canada). Cuba's economy is a shambles because communism isn't a sustainable economic approach (see "Soviet Union, former") ... Cuba's economy was almost entirely held up by the aforementioned SU, and infrastructure on what is otherwise a beautiful island has been slowly crumbling for want of maintenance in the decades since.