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...“In the midst of a blockade that aims to suffocate us, we will continue working peacefully to get out of this situation,” posted Díaz-Canel, who in 2021 succeeded Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl as leader....
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...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....
...It should be a historic opportunity for detente: for the first time in over 60 years, Cuba is no longer run by a Castro....
...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....
...His brother Raúl retired as de facto ruler in April and in June turned 90. It fell to Miguel Díaz-Canel, a party bureaucrat lacking any revolutionary pedigree, to respond....
...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,...
...(FT) Raúl Castro expected to cede power in Cuba Cuba’s last Castro is set to leave the political stage on Friday when Fidel’s 89-year-old brother Raúl is expected to cede power to a younger generation in...
...The party’s founder, Vladimir Cerrón, names Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba among a select “group of presidents who gave the continent...
...“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.”...
...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....
...In it, he hurled angry insults at the officer, cursed Communist party leader Raúl Castro and proclaimed support for US president Donald Trump....
...Cuba’s last Castro is set to leave the political stage on Friday when Fidel’s 89-year-old brother Raúl is expected to cede power to a younger generation at the start of the country’s Communist party congress...
...(FT) Cuba’s last Castro prepares to retire As Fidel’s 89-year-old brother Raúl prepares to leave the political stage, Cuba finds itself besieged by the coronavirus pandemic, US sanctions, chronic shortages...
...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...
...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 Díaz-Canel took office 18 months ago and has filled the leadership vacuum left after his 88-year-old predecessor Raúl Castro stepped down....
...Some, including René Portocarrero and Raúl Martínez González, were artists with well-established careers. At its peak, the organisation employed around 20 illustrators, mostly men....
...She called Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother, and is said to have told him: “If they touch my boys, I leave.”...
...There will be an age limit (compared to Raúl Castro’s 86 years when he stepped down last year). It will also formally allow property to be privately owned....
...Eric Schmidt, Google’s former chief executive, first visited Cuba shortly before the then US president Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raúl Castro announced the beginning of a process of detente that...
...At the core of Latin American populism, he says (also seen in the rhetoric of other leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez), is an idea that “the poor are the custodians of a pure...
...Raúl Castro, 86, stood down as president of Cuba and was replaced by Miguel Díaz-Canel, 57, the vice-president....
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