[lbo-talk] CUBA: Big Changes in Castro's Guard

[Bob Morris]

from The Havana Note, who are friendly towards Cuba and who have long called
for an end to the embargo.

CUBA: Big Changes in Castro's Guard
http://thehavananote.com/2009/03/cuba_big_changes_in_castros_gu.html

What has happened is that Raul Castro, now President of Cuba, has sacked his
brother's closest followers and advisers in government.

Both Vice President Carlos Lage and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque have
been given pink slips. These were Fidel's most obvious heir apparents and
his chief ideological spear carriers in the next generation of Cuban
political leadership.

This is one of those historical pivot points in normally opaque (often
Communist) regimes that will be remembered for generations.

Raul Castro seems fully in control now -- and he's done with ideology.