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Good Bye Pervez, Farewell Fidel!

Well, it looks like the good guys won! Fidel finally decides it is time to resign. We shall see how far his arm may still reach in the coming months.

On the other side of the world in Pakistan, the parliamentary elections were successful and the ruling party of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf admitted defeat with only 38 seats.

The previously ousted Nawaz Sharif whose Pakistan Muslim League-N party won 67 seats, was one of the winners and only The Pakistan People's Party of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto won more national assembly seats -- 92.

KerryVision did say that we might never see any video of Senator Kerry's visit to Pakistan to oversee its elections, but we are happy to be proven wrong. Yesterday, CNN asked our guy to weigh in on the latest breaking news - Fidel Castro's resignation, and the parliamentary elections he had overseen on Monday.

The Senator expressed cautious optimism about the Castro news, cautioning that while Fidel would not run again, his brother would take his place, so the US couldn't expect too much of a transition happening. While not advocating a complete change of stance towards the new regime in Cuba, Kerry did allow for some relaxation of the strict and rigid way the US has dealt with the communist nation up until now.

Moving on to Pakistan, Senator Kerry expressed disappointment about the violence on the day prior to the election, but stated that the election itself had been fair and successful. He praised the Pakistani people for their willingness to go out and take a risk because they believed their vote would be counted.



For even more on Senator Kerry's visit to Pakistan, watch this excellent slideshow. There are some pictures of the Super Tuesday Boston rally, as well. We are treated to Teddy, Teresa, and Barack, who - speaking of good guys winning - had a clearcut victory in Wisconsin and a landslide in Hawaii.

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