Cuba’s Castro dynasty has ended
ON APRIL 16, Raul Castro – the younger brother of long-time Cuban leader Fidel Castro – relinquished his position as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most powerful position in Cuba.
Castro, 89, became Cuba’s president in 2008, after his brother’s incapacitation, and took over the first secretary role from Fidel in 2011. Fidel Castro died in 2016.
Just as Fidel’s death did not suddenly transform antagonistic US-Cuban ties, neither does Raul Castro’s departure.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel, who took office in 2018 after Raul Castro stepped down as president, has resisted calls for democratic
