Raúl Castro, Cuba’s acting leader, next to the empty chair of his brother, Fidel, at a parliamentary meeting Friday in Havana. When Fidel Castro presided over meetings from that chair, he asked many questions.By MARC LACEY
Published: December 23, 2006
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 22 — Cuba’s acting leader, Raúl Castro, sat silently as the country’s Parliament opened its year-end session in Havana on Friday, and all eyes were on the empty chair next to him from which his elder brother, Fidel, usually presides.
The first meeting of the National Assembly since Fidel Castro went into surgery in late July was, according to news service reports, much like many other legislative sessions in Havana: bland.
But this one was watched closely just in case the ailing octogenarian leader, who used to pepper underlings with questions, showed up — he did not — or in the unlikely event that the Assembly opened a debate on the island’s future.
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