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

Bob Morris bob.morris at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 15:02:51 PST 2009


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.



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