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Díaz-Canel, the engineer born after the Revolución who will lead Cuba without the Castro family

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There is an air of expectation in Cuba. An atmosphere almost suspended between skepticism and hope. Skepticism for a future that will change little, hope that the exit of the scene Raul castro signs the start of an inevitable turning point, decisive for the island. With the election of the current president as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel the era of the Castro and the “barbudos” of the “M26-7” ends, who triumphantly entered Havana on January 1st 1959. Continuity in change is the motto that sanctioned the handover, the same with which the party’s VIII Congress opened. And it will be on this oxymoron that the task of the new top executive will be based, helped by Raúl himself to reach the highest office in the country, as president, in 2018.

Cuba without Castro. Raúl, a failed reformist in Fidel’s reign, leaves the scene

di Norberto Fuentes


Electronic engineer, 61 years old next Tuesday, Miguel Díaz-Canel has climbed all the steps of the party moving with balance. He showed off as a militant but did not succumb to protagonism. He opened to new demands coming from the grassroots but defended the founding values ​​of the regime. Appointed leader of the Union of Young Communists at the end of the 1980s, he entered immediately afterwards as a member of the party where he held the position of second secretary of the National Youth Committee in 1993 and a year later first secretary of the Provincial Committee of Villa Clara where he was born. Soon he joins the Politburo, has experience as Minister of Higher Education, then as Vice President of the Council until April 19, 2018 when the Parliament elects him President of the Council of State and Prime Minister of Cuba. A perfect career, a path without obstacles and stumbles, built by Raúl who in 2013, indicating him as his successor, exalted his pedigree by overcoming the last skeptics: “He is neither a novice nor an improvised”.

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Qualities that are recognized. But that are not enough to guarantee such a brilliant rise. “To get to where he has arrived without being defenestrated”, observers recall, “the first condition is to follow the script properly. In this Díaz-Canel was a perfect interpreter ”. Little is known about how you really think. He never deviated from the party line. But he was no mere foolish follower. He was able to grasp the need for a change that the ruling old guard in the decisive state apparatuses was struggling to accept. He has focused on system reforms towards the so-called raulismo: more market without plurality of parties.

And now Cuba will be without Castro

by our correspondent Omero Ciai



President Miguel Díaz-Canel appreciates the economic development of Vietnam, looks with interest at the communist capitalism of China, is convinced of the need for an opening to private individuals without renouncing the hegemony of the state in the fundamental and strategic sectors. As president of Cuba, he is the one who launches the new Constitution launched by Parliament and approved by a referendum. It will always be his government to manage the reform that introduces and broadens the new table of sectors in which foreign companies can invest, to ferry the new course of the single currency that puts the convertible peso, the Cuc, in the attic, doing justice to a disparity which hit wage earners in local currency at the expense of those in the official peso.

All observers are convinced that the new post-Castro leadership will maintain the profile of “zero tolerance and repression” against all dissent but that over time it will unleash its true character as a reformist. Much will depend on the men and women who will work alongside him. “If all the others of the old guard withdraw with Raúl”, remembers Carlos Alzugaray, former diplomat and party member, “Díaz-Canel will have more discretion and decision-making power than he has now that he has been elected first secretary of the Communist Party “.

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Perhaps then the man who embodies the Cuba of the future will be free to show his true nature. It will always be the Diaz and Night, as he was nicknamed, for his battle against corruption in state-owned enterprises when as a young party leader he ordered sudden forays into companies and factories. But he will also bring out his rock singer soul that made him famous as a young man, his free spirit that made him wear long hair and colorful shirts, his open-mindedness that led him to defend gender identities, marriage. gay, abortion.

Continuity in change. Miguel Díaz-Canel will defend the principles of the Revolution but it is already in the future. He is convinced of the need to open up to new newspapers and sources of information. Knows the impact of the network and the strength of social media. More than fighting them he will use them. Technology cannot be stopped, it must be exploited. He will also have to make it clear to the old conservatives of the party. He was the only one who showed up at the party congress with a tablet in his hand.

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