Havana - Cuba's President, Dr Fidel Castro (73), said yesterday he saw no need to prepare a successor to carry on his country's 40-year-old socialist revolution.
In a published interview, the veteran revolutionary-turned-statesman, who turns 74 in August after four decades in power, predicted that the one-party communist system he had established in Cuba would continue smoothly and unaltered after his death.
"I know full well that man is mortal," Dr Castro said in a series of written answers to questions sent to him by Mr Federico Mayor, the former head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
"I didn't inherit any position and I'm not a king, so I don't need to prepare a successor," he added in the four-page interview published by Cuba's official daily Granma.
