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...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...
...“I expect that Raul will serve out the rest of his life somewhat like Deng Xiaoping did in China: with decreasing formal power but immense informal power — at least until he dies,” says Mr Mora....
...Raúl Castro, who congratulated Mr Trump on his election victory, has said little about future US relations....
...Raúl Castro is an octogenarian president who claims he will step down in 2018; Cuba’s Soviet-style economy is struggling as socialist ally Venezuela implodes; and President Obama hopes to draw the island...
...There may be some roughness around the edges, but that’s all,” said Mr Mora....
...If there are any immediate winners, Mr Mora added, it is the Cuban people....
...In the end, the objective is political,” said Frank Mora, Cuba expert at the War College in Washington....
...“The Raúlistas understand reform is needed if post-Fidel rule is to consolidate,” says Cuba expert Frank Mora at the National War College in Washington....
...Rául’s diagnosis seems to be that parts of the system itself do not work. We will see what he prescribes.”...
...Raul Castro, defense minister and acting president since Mr Castro took ill, presided over the parade....
...Frank Mora, an expert on the Cuban military at the National War College in Washington, agrees. “Raul is much respected within the military and very capable in his own right....
...“I do think it’s a toss-up when both Castros are gone and a number of fissures could emerge to break the regime and force change from below,” Frank Mora, a national security and Cuba expert at the National...
...“After 47 plus years of one man symbolising the revolution and with near absolute control, it is hard to think of a Cuba without Fidel,” says Frank Mora, a national security and Cuba expert at the National...
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