The keys to understanding the farewell to the Castros in Cuba

The twilight of the revolution

Synonymous with Cuba since January 1, 1959, the name Castro has disappeared from the governing bodies of the country and from its all-powerful Communist Party.

In 2008, after the renunciation of Fidel, ill, his brother Raúl had taken control.

He in turn has handed them over to Miguel Díaz-Canel, 60, an apparatchik already appointed to the Presidency of the Republic in 2018.

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With this changing of the guard, a new era begins.

Díaz-Canel will rely on fifty-year-olds born after the revolution of the "barbudos".

Rude heritage.

Not only will this generation no longer be able to claim the fall of the Batista dictatorship, a mantra of the Castro years, but it must take up an economy close to ruin.

Without historical legitimacy and penniless, Miguel Díaz-Canel seems very poorly engaged.

Especially since public opinion, as muzzled as in the heyday of Castroism, has discovered social networks where the worst comments on a breathless Caribbean communism flourish.

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