Tag: Raúl Castro
-Analysis- MIAMI — The gradual renewal of ties between the United States and Cuba no longer qualifies as news. Both sides have put aside their prerequisites for sitting and talking — an end to the embargo for Cuba, and Cuba pledging to change its political system. Each country has followed a basic script guiding both […]
As ties improve between Cuba and the United States, bilateral trade — perhaps the area of greatest interest to consumers — has yet to emerge from its Cold War torpor.
The Castro regime’s about-face to restore ties with the U.S. signals the communist economic system’s shameful failure. But politics is another matter.
GRANMA (CUBA), LA NACIÓN (COSTA RICA), SBS (AUSTRALIA Worldcrunch HAVANA – Cuban President Raúl Castro’s reelection for a second term Sunday was no surprise. But Cuba is still absorbing the unexpected announcement that it would be Castro’s final five-year mandate, and his naming of a much younger government minister to be his No. 2, and […]