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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....
...The ELN was formed in 1964 by a group of radical students who had studied in communist Cuba and were inspired by Fidel Castro’s Marxist revolution....
...Despite the problems, political change in Cuba 63 years after the revolution that brought the Castro brothers to power seems unlikely....
...William Diaz, a leader of Florida’s Venezuelan community, has long kept a copy of Ronald Reagan’s final speech on his phone....
...The Castro era in Cuba came to a carefully choreographed end on Monday, as President Miguel Díaz-Canel was elected head of the ruling Communist party, replacing the retiring leader, 89-year-old Raúl Castro...
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, the uncharismatic post-Castro leader, was quick to call for “revolutionaries” to take to the streets and face down the protesters....
...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,...
...Pleas to open up In the days after the protests, Díaz-Canel softened his tone....
...Díaz-Canel’s approach was “in line with Raúl Castro’s strategy of maintaining tight political control while making difficult economic changes,” he said....
...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....
...Without a Castro in power for the first time since the 1959 communist revolution, it fell to President Miguel Díaz-Canel, a stodgy party technocrat, to answer thousands of Cubans who thronged the streets...
...Plus, Miguel Diaz-Canel has been confirmed as the new head of Cuba’s Communist party. The FT’s Latin America editor, Michael Stott, discusses the island’s future in the post-Castro era....
...There has been no discernible glasnost in the island’s politics from Miguel Díaz-Canel, Castro’s anointed successor, to accompany the perestroika of the economic reforms....
...He is proud of how his initiatives have helped emerging artists from difficult backgrounds, citing the Costa Rican Christian Salablanca Díaz, whose video “Geometría del centro” (Geometry of the Centre) (...
...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...
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuban president, did not congratulate Mr Biden or mention his name in public after the US election....
...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....
...Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, announced last month that he was scrapping a dual currency system and bringing in a wave of economic reforms because of the crisis....
...“Nothing’s going to change,” was the weary response in Guanabacoa when Miguel Díaz-Canel, a bureaucrat, took up the Cuban presidency in a carefully staged transition from Castro rule in 2019....
...Teresita Fernández’s studio has the impersonal, sleek facade of a luxury bunker, a place super-rich people might store cars, or art....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...“We will never change our attitude,” Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, wrote on Twitter. “We Cubans do not surrender.”...
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