10 things you need to know about Raul Castro's Cuba

Today's announcement that Fidel Castro had formally stepped down as dictator-in-chief of Cuba, has drawn many new readers to this blog, some of whom, I would guess, know few of the details of the oppression and repression on the island.

As a primer, here are 10 things, people, events, etc., you need to know, as little brother Raul, or someone else, prepares to take over:

1. Oscar Elias Biscet.

2. Cuba's "health care miracle."

3. The lack of a free press.

4. The Brothers to the Rescue.

5. The "13th of March" massacre.

6. Aini Martín Valero.

7. Darsi Ferrer.

8. Normando Hernandez Gonzalez.

9. The real Ché Guevara.

10. The real Raul Castro.