José Ramón Fernández will probably never attend another Communist Party Congress. At 92, he’s the oldest delegate to take part in the four-day meeting of Cuba’s top communist leaders that convenes on Saturday.

With the island’s closed economy slowly opening to the world and relations with the United States warming, you’d think the 92-year-old’s attendance at an elite gathering that could determine Cuba’s future wouldn’t be front page news. But that was one of the few peeks into this year’s congress revealed in Cuba’s official newspaper Granma.

Source: Texas Public Radio