In preparation for the transfer of the Cuban presidency from General Raul Castro to Coronel Miguel Diaz-Canel on April. 19, the Cuban Communist Party-Political Bureau held its V Plenary meeting. · Raul Castro will remain as Secretary General of the Party and head of its Politburo, until 2021, the maximum authority according to Cuba’s Constitution. …
The inexorable breakdown of the communist dynastic succession in Cuba is expected as a payback of the criminal ideological catastrophe. There is no way out for this failed system. The incoherent, irrational dogma has been a failure. Communism is doomed. In this context, Cuba has a possible renaissance as a pluralistic democracy. The role of …
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U.S. investors hoping to do business in Cuba face numerous problems/issues which include the resolution of U.S. properties confiscated by the Cuban government in the early 1960s; an arbitrary legal system controlled by General Raul Castro and the military; widespread corruption; a value system that includes stealing from enterprises and working as little as possible; …
General Raul Castro and Miguel Diaz Canel. The Domestic Scene The limited economic changes introduced by Gen. Raul Castro in Cuba encouraged some observers to proclaim the end of communism and the dismantling of the totalitarian system in the island. Notwithstanding Raul Castro’s own statements that he was not elected to restore capitalism, these observers …
