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29 May 2018



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Opinion: Cuba’s two conundrums
Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has two problems to fix. First, the country’s increasingly youthful population demands the goods and services they know are available elsewhere. Second, Cuba has lost most of the international support system that propped up its socialist welfare state. To resolve both, he must open up ...

Dr. Joseph S. Tulchin
At the end of April, Cuba’s parliament, the National Assembly of Popular Power, elected Miguel Diaz-Canel president, to succeed Raul Castro. Although Raul remains first secretary of the country’s Communist Party and de facto chief of the armed forces, much is being made of a generational shift in the country’s leadership.
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