Aging Castro still rules 50 years after revolution
(AP)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081220/capt.2a142f2df1cc40f1959451dc87a37dfa.cuba_revolution_at_50_ny111.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=.UZTPIZBReNgXJP6FyiTVA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="This Jan. 2, 2007 overhead view shows the Miramar section of Havana, Cuba. The Cuban revolution triumphed on Jan. 1, 1959 after dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country and Fidel Castro and his band of rebels descended from the island's eastern mountains, where they waged a guerrilla war against government troops. Cuba will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_revolution_at50)AP - In the palace of a fallen dictator, the grade-school kids in their red Communist Pioneer bandanas are getting their mandatory introduction to the glories of the revolution. Clattering from one display case to the next, they gaze wide-eyed at an antique gun, a fighter's bloodied shirt, the engine of a downed U.S. spy plane.</p><br clear="all"/>
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