additional insight One of my peeps on the ground just mentioned a couple of really key things that haven't been getting enough attention:

1) Fidel didn't delegate all of his powers to Raúl--just the most important ones. My peep suggests this implies that nobody on the succession team is very worried about internal order debates at the top (perhaps because Alarcón and Ibarra are being left out of the loop? Is that really, um, the greatest way to secure consensus?)

2) Raúl has yet to give a public speech. That really is very odd.  ¶ 5:16 PM