New President of Cuba 2018 Change You Can Beleive in or Not

[Greater Miami Shores]

They say the new Pres. will be copying the Chinese economic plan.

Optimists think Mr Díaz-Canel will guide Cuba towards the path taken by China and Vietnam, where communist parties liberalised the economy

Yeah looks that way:

Fidel's son Antonio Tony Castro Soto del Valle with his girlfriend dinning in an expensive restaurant and smoking a Cigar, after so many years of hard work and personal sacrifices for the people and the revolution.

Rio Cana My Friend.

[Greater Miami Shores]

Source: I found a good fair and balanced news article from the New York Times, lol I'm in shock.
By the Editorial Board:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/opin ... unism.html

A New Cuba After the Castros? Not Quite

It’s been 60 years since anyone other than a Castro was at the head of the Cuban state, so the installation of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez as president in Havana this week does rank as a symbolic moment. But not much more, at least for the moment.

Rául Castro, who handpicked this loyal apparatchik as his successor, remains at the helm of the Communist Party and the armed forces; his son( Colonel of the Ministry of the Interior Alejandro Castro Espín Guillois) runs the intelligence services; his ex-son-in-law ( General Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Callejas ) runs the military’s vast business interests ( Gaesa and Gaviota in charge of the tourism businesses, hotels, car rental agencies, restaurants, Port of Mariel Free Trade Zone, and other businesses) In his first speech, Mr. Díaz-Canel vowed there would be no “capitalist restoration” and concluded with a slogan that has not roused the masses for some time now: “Socialism or death! We will triumph!”

He also said, Raúl as First Secretary of the Communist Party will continue to make the most important decisions for the present and future of Cuba, and Raúl Castro said that while the self employed cuenta propistas will continue what the government needs to do is make sure they pay their taxes, and follow the rules and regulations, that is Raul's idea of reform and liberalizing the economy

Yet the history of Communist regimes suggests that once the revolutionary old guard passes on, change is possible. Rául Castro, the late Fidel Castro’s younger brother, is 86, and there is no certainty that his kith and kin can carry the torch once he’s gone, especially since the flame is flickering.

In his 10 years as president, Rául Castro opened the economy a crack to private investment and private enterprise, but without lifting the state’s firm and onerous centralized control. The Soviet Union was no longer around to prop up the economy, and Venezuela, which for a time filled the void, descended into its own economic hell. And President Barack Obama’s opening to Cuba has been partly reversed by President Trump. The result, according to a study by Richard Feinberg of the Brookings Institution, is a “persistent stagnation” that has left Cuba further and further behind the world on most fronts.

Mr. Díaz-Canel, 58, was not yet born when the Castro brothers waged their guerrilla war from the Sierra Maestra mountains.
It is far too early to tell whether this will eventually produce a Cuban reformer in the mold of Mikhail Gorbachev or Deng Xiaoping, or whether Mr. Díaz-Canel proves to be simply a place-holder for another generation of Castros.

Mr. Obama took a long overdue step in 2014 when he moved to normalize relations with Cuba. Rather than seek to reverse course, Mr. Trump should join with Cuba’s other neighbors to encourage the new Cuban leader to expand the private economy, release political prisoners, increase access to the internet, decentralize power and in other critically needed ways finally break his country out of the Castro cocoon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/opin ... unism.html

[Greater Miami Shores]

April 19 2018 one day before his 58 birthday and one day after his after his 58 birthday the show and the farce begins, President of Cuba Compañero Comrade, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez and his wife the First Lady of Cuba, Lis Cuesta Peraza Playing President of Cuba

President Diaz-Canel of Cuba Meets with Compañero Comrade, President Nicolás Maduro of the Democratic Bolivarian Revolutionary Chavista Socialist Republic of Venezuela.

First Lady Lis Cuesta Peraza of Cuba meets with First Lady of Venezuela Cilia Flores and Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla.

And two days later

President Diaz-Canel of Cuba meets with Compañero Comrade, President Evo Morales of Bolivia.

[Pope Joan]

I hope nobody from among the expats in Miami ever goes back to Cuba, The Battista regime was riddled with crime, and founded upon drugs, prostitution and gambling. Fortunately, most of that has now been outsourced to Florida. May it never return.

[Greater Miami Shores]

I hope nobody from among the expats in Miami ever goes back to Cuba, The Battista regime was riddled with crime, and founded upon drugs, prostitution and gambling. Fortunately, most of that has now been outsourced to Florida. May it never return.

lol, you mean the Cuba of the Jineteras and Jineteros under Fidel and Raúl's goverrnment? lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

[Pope Joan]

I hope nobody from among the expats in Miami ever goes back to Cuba, The Battista regime was riddled with crime, and founded upon drugs, prostitution and gambling. Fortunately, most of that has now been outsourced to Florida. May it never return.

lol, you mean the Cuba of the Jineteras and Jineteros under Fidel and Raúl's goverrnment? lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

Miami has become a cesspool.
It is entirely appropriate that the leading booster of the U was lavishing drugs, diamonds and whore upon those so-called student athletes. And President Donna still had him sit in her executive box at the games.
Of course the NCAA did nothing, because their president is an alum.
Disgusting.

[Greater Miami Shores]

lol, you mean the Cuba of the Jineteras and Jineteros under Fidel and Raúl's goverrnment? lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

Miami has become a cesspool.
It is entirely appropriate that the leading booster of the U was lavishing drugs, diamonds and whore upon those so-called student athletes. And President Donna still had him sit in her executive box at the games.
Of course the NCAA did nothing, because their president is an alum.
Disgusting.

A cesspool, you should see the real Cuba under Fidel and Raúl, with the Jineteras and Jineteros, and the poverty of my family still in Cuba, lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

[Reformed Houn]

Miami has become a cesspool.
It is entirely appropriate that the leading booster of the U was lavishing drugs, diamonds and whore upon those so-called student athletes. And President Donna still had him sit in her executive box at the games.
Of course the NCAA did nothing, because their president is an alum.
Disgusting.

A cesspool, you should see the real Cuba under Fidel and Raúl, with the Jineteras and Jineteros, and the poverty of my family still in Cuba, lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

Hey nothing bad about the Jineterismo aslong as they're not being pimped.

[Greater Miami Shores]

A cesspool, you should see the real Cuba under Fidel and Raúl, with the Jineteras and Jineteros, and the poverty of my family still in Cuba, lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

Hey nothing bad about the Jineterismo aslong as they're not being pimped.

lol, what? the Cops look the other way for bribes and sexual favors, plus their Pimps.

A cesspool, you should see the real Cuba under Fidel and Raúl, with the Jineteras and Jineteros, and the poverty of my family still in Cuba, lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

While the Castro Family lives like rich $, Capitalist Socialists Communists, Please check out the Pics.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=gre ... /id=844667

[Reformed Houn]

Hey nothing bad about the Jineterismo aslong as they're not being pimped.

lol, what?

A cesspool, you should see the real Cuba under Fidel and Raúl, with the Jineteras and Jineteros, and the poverty of my family still in Cuba, lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

While the Castro Family lives like rich $, Capitalist Socialists Communists, Please check out the Pics.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=gre ... /id=844667

I know, wasn't arguing against that.

[Greater Miami Shores]

lol, what? while the Cops look the other way for bribes $ and sexual favors, plus the Pimps.

A cesspool, you should see the real Cuba under Fidel and Raúl, with the Jineteras and Jineteros, and the poverty of my family still in Cuba, lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

While the Castro Family lives like rich $, Capitalist Socialists Communists, Please check out the Pics.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=gre ... /id=844667

I know, wasn't arguing against that.

[Pope Joan]

"Prostitution is alive and well in Miami"
http://www.sflstyle.com/article/hookers-in-miami/id/86

[Sicaris]

So he'll claim the Carribean and start building islands?

I do not think they want any islands. It could be that they want what they controlled in 1790 which is in light green on the following map. See map -

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/cari ... ptcuba.gif

Cuba tries to Anschluss any of the USA and they’re screwed lmao

[Reformed Houn]

I know, wasn't arguing against that.

What? You just copied my comment

[Greater Miami Shores]

What? You just copied my comment

Dude Im sorry about that, you quoted me while I was trying to edit or delete my post, to add to my post, sorry.

[Reformed Houn]

What? You just copied my comment

Dude Im sorry about that, you quoted me while I was trying to edit or delete my post, to add to my post, sorry.

Ohhh okay sorry

[Greater Miami Shores]

"Prostitution is alive and well in Miami"
http://www.sflstyle.com/article/hookers-in-miami/id/86

Where to find Jineteras, Jineteros, and Pimps, while the Cops look the other way for bribes $ and sexual Plesures, in Cuba under the governments of Fidel, Raúl and the so called President Diaz-Canel.

lol, I'm having a lol attack, Someone Please have mercy and call 911?

While the Castro Family lives like rich $, Capitalist Socialists Communists, Please check out the Pics.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=gre ... /id=844667

[Sicaris]

Cuba is a oneparty dictatorship. That's not cultural bias, that's not a Western-centric way of looking at it, it just...is. Nobody makes excuses for the denial of freedoms on Cuba, the relative lack of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom to form political parties which deviate from the state ideology.

I'm originally from a oneparty state. Take it from me, much as Americans like to complain about the de facto two party system in the US they have no idea what the real monopoly of power looks like.

Oneparty states may always be equated to the denial of political freedom.

This exactly.