In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Input: Consider Input: Havana, Cuba (CNN) Hurricane Irma, which devastated much of the Caribbean in September, has claimed a new victim: Raul Castro's succession plans. On Thursday, Cuban officials said the island was still dealing with the aftermath of the killer storm and needed to postpone long-held plans for Castro, 86, to retire on February 24, 2018, when his second five-year term ends. It was to have been the first time that Cuba was ruled by a leader not named Castro since the 1959 revolution that swept Raul Castro's older brother Fidel Castro to power. The wrath of Irma, however, delayed the Communist-run island's single party elections process, which appoints the Cuban National Assembly that in turn selects Cuba's president.Cuba, dealing with Hurricane Irma aftermath, says Castro will retire in April instead of FebruaryCastro has indicated first Vice President Miguel-Diaz Canel has his blessing to be the next president 
 Question:"My second and last term will have concluded," _ told Cuban lawmakers on Thursday, "and Cuba will have a new president."

Output: Raul Castro


Input: Consider Input: (CNN) On a recent trip to Havana, I waited in my hotel lobby for my next meeting, sipping a cortado, and scrolling through emails surrounded by bustling businesspeople in every direction. It felt like a hotel in any global business capital. Yet a stark reminder of my surroundings -- aside from the physical realities of the charm of a boutique hotel in Cuba's Habana Vieja neighborhood -- was the immediate lack of any Internet connection as soon as I stepped outside the confines of the hotel. My stay in a casa particular (private house) the remainder of the week only heightened this reality, and my time spent coordinating roaming service yielded spotty results.Cuba's announcement of launching broadband Internet service in two pilot projects in Havana is historic, says Alana TumminoTummino: We're seeing beginning of end of Cuba's Internet isolation, but there's a long way to go 
 Question:The telecommunications sector has been an important part, or more precisely, a key pillar of President Barack Obama's opening to _, dating back to executive actions for this sector in 2009.

Output: Cuba


Input: Consider Input: Washington (CNN) -- The Senate focused Wednesday on an energy efficiency bill while House Republicans argued among themselves over funding Obamacare as Congress shifted its focus from the Syria crisis in order to give new diplomatic efforts a chance to succeed. In his nationally televised address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama said he asked legislators to hold off on voting on his requested authorization to attack Syria over chemical weapons while his administration negotiates with Russia on putting Syrian stockpiles under international control. "Congress will be watching these negotiations very closely," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, warned Wednesday. "If there is any indication they're not serious or they're being used as a ploy to delay, then Congress stands ready to return to that Syria resolution" that would authorize a military strike on Syria.A resolution authorizing military strikes on Syria is put on holdThe Senate takes up energy legislation insteadThe delay provides time for negotiations on a diplomatic solutionSen. Reid: If negotiations fail, the resolution comes back up 
 Question:Off the _ floor, however, talks continued behind the scenes among a group of bipartisan senators on changes to the resolution that Reid said would be taken up if the negotiations with Russia fail.


Output: Senate