New Cuban revolution?

Dire straits? A taxi driver waiting for tourists to hire him for a ride around Havana in 2024. The Trump administration has tightened the US chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil and tourism. — Jorge Luis Baños/The New York Times

CELEBRATIONS broke out in front of Miami’s Versailles restaurant nearly 20 years ago after Fidel Castro announced that he was so sick he had to temporarily step down as president of Cuba.

Cuban exiles rejoiced again two years later when he quit for good – and once more when he died in 2016, though his brother Raúl Castro was president at the time.