Castro's heir faces pressure to accelerate reform in Cuba


  • World
  • Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: Cuba's President Miguel Diaz Canel speaks during a pro-government rally in Havana, Cuba, November 29, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

HAVANA (Reuters) - The new leader of Cuba's ruling Communist Party may be the first born after its 1959 revolution but he is also a loyalist who is not expected to make significant changes to its one-party system and has moved only tentatively on market-style economic reforms.

Since succeeding his mentor Raul Castro, 89, as president in 2018, Miguel Diaz-Canel, 60, has emphasized the need for continuity over renewal.

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