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| Castro Picks 'Young' New Heir to Take Regime Into Future |
| 2013-02-26 |
| [TOLONEWS] President Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... has been re-elected to what he vowed would be his last term in office, and unveiled a 52-year-old political heir tasked with securing the future of the communism in Cuba after 2018. "This will be my last term," Castro, 81, told politicians after the National Assembly re-elected him Sunday and named a new regime number two, Council of State Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Castro said he was "elected to defend, maintain and continue perfecting socialism -- not to destroy it," adding that his economic reforms will create "a less egalitarian society, but a fairer one." Choosing Diaz-Canel, a former military man and professor from Villa Clara who has represented the president on foreign trips in recent months, "marks a final step in configuring the country's future leadership, through the slow and orderly transfer of the main leadership positions to new generations," Castro said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Is Castro stepping down to become the next Pope? |
| Posted by: American Delight 2013-02-26 21:02 |
| #5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57UR-oIE_g |
| Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-02-26 14:53 |
| #4 said he was "elected named a new regime number two Elected, You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means |
| Posted by: Alanc 2013-02-26 07:43 |
| #3 Meddling with prices only makes one thing, a shortage. Socialism is a synonym for shortage. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-02-26 06:05 |
| #2 Castro said he was "elected to defend, maintain and continue perfecting socialism So how's that working out for ya? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-02-26 01:31 |
| #1 So IIUC, Uncle Raul has admitted that Communism, or at least the Cuba brand, doth N-O-T an egalitarian society maketh despite the promises??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-26 00:08 |