First Secretary of the Central Communist Party of Cuba Raul Castro is going to leave his post. It is expected that his position will take the successor on Monday, on April 19, Interfax reports with reference to the Western media.
89-year-old politician takes part in the eighth Congress of the Communist Party, which should be for Castro the last. It is assumed that the successor of the head of the political cell will be the current president of the country Miguel Diaz Channel. At the same time, the agency reports, Castro will continue to influence the political elite.
As the PAIS newspaper writes to which Interfax refers, there are many calls before Cuba. In particular, due to ineffective economic policies, a critical situation is developing in the country, which is aggravated by the coronavirus epidemic and the tightening of the embargo adopted by the last administration of the White House.
Thus, the long-term era of the reign of revolutionaries of the Castro brothers, which came to power in the state in 1959, will be completed in Cuba.
Raul Castro – the younger brother of Revolutionary Fidel Castro. He served as head of state from 2008 to 2018. Since 2011, politician is headed by the Central Communist Party. After the victory of the revolution, in 1959, Raul Castro for 50 years was a military minister.