Cuban Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel (left) is likely to succeed Raul Castro (right) when he steps down as president in 2018. Also in this picture is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a conference at the University of Havana, Cuba Nov. 16, 2016. Photo: Enrique de la Osa/Reuters
The one constant in Cuba in the last six decades has been a Castro holding the reins of power. But with Friday’s death of Fidel and the fact his younger brother Raul is 85, attention is turning to the next generation of Cuban leaders.
Miguel Diaz-Canel, 55, currently serves as Raul Castro’s vice president and is his apparent successor. He has been working his way up the hierarchy for 30 years, first in provincial positions and then as minister of higher education. When he was 43, he became a member of the Politburo, the youngest ever. Most of the other members fought in the 1959 revolution.
An electrical engineer by trade and a Beatles fan, Diaz-Canel is a social media devotee, often posting pictures of himself and the younger Castro brother.
America’s Quarterly said in a profile last year Diaz-Canel generally keeps a low profile. He was born after the revolution and is a member of the reform wing of the party, more an experienced manager than ideologue. Unlike the Castros, he dresses in jeans and sports jackets, eschewing military fatigues.
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WNU Editor: I predicted this in 2013 .... The Next Leader Of Cuba? (February 25, 2013) .... and the comment I made in 2013 still stands.
The only one missing from that picture is Kim Jong-un...
ReplyDeleteA very unfortunate picture of Trudeau. Happily rubbing elbows with Cuban tyrants. Less than 2 weeks ago! He looks like the baby-faced naive that he is.
ReplyDeletehttp://english.gov.cn/archive/publications/2016/04/14/content_281475327578479.htm
ReplyDeleteI guess we Canadians should pick our friends better.....
I'll stick to the comment that I wanted to write when I saw WNU's prediction.
ReplyDeleteIt shows if a person is erudite and has paid attention. the markets only go 6 months out. Maybe the market for political forecast is different.
Still it takes guts to lay it on the line.
It take good reasoning to get it right or come close.
The original post is 3 years old. Not many politicians would lay it on the line like that.
Now for my next post.
ReplyDeleteWow RRH is really sick in the head.
First off he would never ask the '5 Whys' in all situations.
I like how poofter sought aid and comfort with Chinese propaganda. You probably can count the countries RRH has been to on one hand.
Probaby had a vacation at a Jamaican resort and stayed by the pool drinking beer for 2 weeks. the hoser probably counts that as having seen Jammaica
RRH is so full of scat, he makes Mary Wilkie seem like a fountain of truth.
[Throws down pamphlets which he has been reading. Excitedly combs his flowing spread of whiskers
ReplyDeletewith his fingers; pounds the table with his fists; lets off brisk volleys of unsanctified language at brief
intervals, repentantly drooping his head, between volleys, and kissing the Louis XI crucifix hanging from
his neck, accompanying the kisses with mumbled apologies; presently rises, flushed and perspiring, and
walks the floor, gesticulating]
---- ----!! ---- ----!! If I had them by the throat! [Hastily kisses the crucifix, and mumbles] In these
twenty years I have spent millions to keep the press of the two hemispheres quiet, and still these leaks
keep on occurring. I have spent other millions on religion and art, and what do I get for it? Nothing. Not a compliment. These generosities are studiedly ignored, in print. In print I get nothing but slanders -- and
slanders again -- and still slanders, and slanders on top of slanders! Grant them true, what of it? They are
slanders all the same when uttered against a king.
Miscreants -- they are telling everything! Oh, everything: how I went pilgriming among the
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Powers in tears, with my mouth full of Bible and my pelt oozing with piety at every pore, and implored
them to place the vast and rich populous Congo Free state in trust in my hands as their agent, so that I
might root out slavery and stop the slave raids, and lift up those twenty-five millions of gentle and
harmless blacks out of darkness into light, the light of our blessed Redeemer, the light that streams from
his holy Word, the light that makes glorious our noble civilization -- lift them up and dry their tears and
fill their bruised hearts with joy and gratitude -- lift them up and make them comprehend that they were
no longer outcasts and forsaken, but our very brothers in Christ; how America and thirteen great
European states wept in sympathy with me, and were persuaded; how their representatives met in
convention in Berlin and made me Head Foreman and Superintendent of the Congo State, and drafted
out my powers and limitations, carefully guarding the persons and liberties and properties of the natives
against hurt and harm; forbidding whisky traffic and gun traffic; providing courts of justice; making
commerce free and fetterless to the merchants and traders of all nations, and welcoming and safe-
guarding all missionaries of all creeds and denominations. They have told how I planned and prepared
my establishment and selected my horde
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of officials -- "pals" and "pimps" of mine, "unspeakable Belgians" every one -- and hoisted my flag, and
"took in" a President of the United States, and got him to be the first to recognize it and salute it. Oh,
well, let them blackguard me if they like; it is a deep satisfaction to me to remember that I was a shade
too smart for that nation that thinks itself so smart. Yes, I certainly did bunco a Yankee -- as those people
phrase it. Pirate flag? Let them call it so -- perhaps it is. All the same, they were the first to salute it.
If RRH is going to quote Mark Twain, he should at least give proper attribution.
ReplyDeleteARAMCO proves what a moron RRH is.