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...Despite the problems, political change in Cuba 63 years after the revolution that brought the Castro brothers to power seems unlikely....
...Raúl Castro has been effectively running the country since his ailing brother Fidel handed power to him in 2006. Fidel Castro died in 2016....
...Díaz-Canel’s approach was “in line with Raúl Castro’s strategy of maintaining tight political control while making difficult economic changes,” he said....
...‘Our president is no use’ José, 50, says he will always be a supporter of Fidel Castro but he is hungry....
...In April, Raúl Castro stepped down as head of the communist party at the age of 89, the first time since the 1959 revolution, led by his brother Fidel, that a Castro had not been in charge....
...Since taking over as president in 2019 and succeeding Raúl Castro as leader of the Communist Party of Cuba in April this year, Díaz-Canel has tried to replace the remaining octogenarian revolutionaries,...
...In the 1980s, Cuba’s then leader Fidel Castro set up the industry to get around the US embargo....
...“More innocent Cubans will pay the price if we return to a one-sided Cuba policy — and throw a lifeline to Raúl Castro’s dictatorial regime.”...
...In it, he hurled angry insults at the officer, cursed Communist party leader Raúl Castro and proclaimed support for US president Donald Trump....
...It is one of communist Cuba’s most hallowed slogans, deployed by Fidel Castro in the 1959 revolution and repeated countless times since: “Patria o Muerte” — Fatherland or Death....
...President Miguel Díaz-Canel then appeared at a youth rally supporting the government where he evoked Fidel Castro’s famous statement to intellectuals in 1961, “within the Revolution everything, outside the...
...Mr Díaz-Canel, flanked by Communist party leader Raúl Castro during a brief televised appearance, cautioned that the measure was not a magic bullet that would solve the country’s economic problems, but would...
...Additional reporting by Marc Frank in Havana...
...But the coronavirus pandemic has given a communist government with a reputation as a medical power one of its toughest domestic challenges since Fidel Castro seized power six decades ago....
...It signalled the readiness of Raúl Castro, then Cuba’s president, to move on from the most bitter moments of the conflict with the US....
...Mr Castro, a discreet, behind-the-scenes operator, was rarely seen or heard from after taking over from his ailing brother Fidel in 2006....
...The former US vice-president claimed he “went on the floor” of the Senate and garnered votes for Dodd-Frank, the 2011 legislation that established the bureau....
...One fake came with letters and photographs purporting to show the painting had been hidden for 50 years in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. IFAR concluded the evidence was part of an “outrageous” scam....
...She called Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother, and is said to have told him: “If they touch my boys, I leave.”...
...newspaper Observers breathed a sigh of relief that under the new regulations the private sector would not meet the same fate as agriculture, where market reforms begun in 2010 by former President Raúl Castro...
...Cuba has proposed Miguel Díaz-Canel as the sole candidate to replace Raúl Castro as president, making him the first non-Castro to lead the socialist country since the 1959 revolution in a sea change for...
...“The armed forces, which includes the ministry of the interior, is where the real power lies,” says Frank Mora, a former US deputy assistant defence secretary and now professor of international affairs at...
...Cuba is ramping up efforts to attract foreign investment as Miguel Díaz-Canel, who replaced Raúl Castro as president last month, begins the tricky balancing act of trying to solve the country’s economic...
...Additional reporting by Marc Frank in Havana *This story has been amended to clarify that the US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council is a non-profit organisation concerned with bilateral commercial relations...
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