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  • Power shakeup casts more doubt on post-Castro Cuba

    03/04/2009 6:12:32 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 324+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/4/09 | Will Weissert - ap
    HAVANA – The ouster of Cuba's two most prominent younger leaders leaves more doubt than ever about who will guide the country once the Castro brothers and their gray-haired revolutionary contemporaries are gone. President Raul Castro is 77. His hand-picked No. 2, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, is a year his senior. And there are no obvious next-generation successors in the ranks of mostly obscure communist party officials, military officers and bureaucrats who were suddenly promoted this week in Cuba's largest leadership shake-up in decades. "This is the old guard, most of them are very traditional hard-liners," said Uva de Aragon,...
  • Cuba lends private farmers unused state land

    04/01/2008 7:05:58 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 20 replies · 102+ views
    msnbc ^ | 4-1-08
    HAVANA - Communist Cuba is opening up unused land to private farmers and cooperatives as part of a sweeping effort to step up agricultural production. The program is among reforms announced in recent days that suggest substantial changes are being driven by the new president, Raul Castro, who vowed when he took over from his brother Fidel to remove some of the more irksome limitations on the daily lives of Cubans. Analysts wondered how far the communist government is willing to go. "Cuban people can't survive on the salaries people are paying them. Average men and women have been screaming...