Cuba's President Raul Castro speaks during the opening ceremony of the seventh Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana April 16, 2016. REUTERS/Omara Garcia/AIN/Handout via Reuters
HAVANA (Reuters) - Future top leaders of Cuba's Communist party should retire at 70 to make way for younger blood, President Raul Castro said on Saturday, suggesting older members hoping for promotion to the top table could play with their grandchildren instead.
Cuba's current leaders include several septuagenarian or octogenarian veterans of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. There is a growing urgency for them to make succession plans to keep the party alive once they are gone.
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