One of the disadvantages of being a supreme autocrat may be that you end up surrounded by bootlickers, who will never, ever tell you what a fool you’re making of yourself. That’s the only way I can make sense of the preposterous official Cuban behavior. It is also quite remarkable that a socialist republic, which supposedly has rejected bourgeois norms and all that is conservative, has endorsed a hereditary monarchy. Whatever the official justification in terms of legitimacy or whatever, if you have a society based pretty much on force, with no rule of law, the son of the just-expired warlord ends up the barons/Politburo have to agree on someone, and the son of the old ruler has been anointed.
HAVANA, Dec 20.- Flags flew at half-staff on Tuesday as Cuba began three days of official mourning for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in a show of solidarity with its fellow communist state.
The Council of State decreed the mourning period without comment and said flags would be lowered at all government buildings and military installations.
A book of condolences was opened at the North Korean embassy in Havana, with a big photo of the dead leader and flowers in the entrance.
Cuba and North Korea are two of the world's last communist nations and have maintained good relations since establishing diplomatic ties in 1960, the year after Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution on the Caribbean island.
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