Presidente Diaz-Canel (ICYMI)

Politics & Elections
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On Thursday, Raúl Castro stepped down as president of Cuba, to be succeeded by Miguel Diaz-Canel. Which was basically a surprise to no one. Diaz-Canel took office the day before his 58[sup]th[/sup] birthday (um, you know who else was born on that day*?*).

Of course, Raúl will remain head of the Party, and the new president (who is younger than Cuban “communism”) is thought to be a hard-line type, so even after Castro follows his brother out, it is unlikely that much if anything will change.

(I put this in Elections kind of for the sake of irony, or something.)

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Well, you could say he was elected by a very small electorate.

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It’s a one-man-one-vote system. And Diaz-Canel is that one man.

What’s ICYMI?

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in case you missed it

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that USA embargo has worked so well to move them away from communism.

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Um, no I don’t.

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As long as Castro stays on as First Secretary of the Communist Party Diaz-Canel is going to have about as much real power as Mikhail Kalinin did in the Soviet Union.

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