Castro, 84, says Cuba's leaders are too old, proposes limits

Future top leaders of Cuba's Communist party should retire at 70 to let in younger blood, President Raul Castro said on Saturday, suggesting older members of the party hoping for promotion to the top table could play with their grandchildren instead. Cuba's current leaders include several septagenarian or octogenarian veterans of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. Raul Castro himself is 84 and after his planned retirement from government in two years time the country is likely to be led by somebody