Weekly Report - 11 July 2013 (WR-13-27)

There was more than a hint of the cantankerous old man rebuking the younger generation in President Raúl Castro’s speech to close Cuba’s parliament on 7 July. Castro devoted most of his speech to what he maintained was a crisis of values in Cuba, with “honesty, decency, shame, decorum, honour and sensitivity” eroded over the 20 years of the special period. Castro suggested that the younger generation needed to buck up its ideas to be worthy of inheriting the Revolution, charging it with a long litany of offences, many of which sounded like exactly the sort of anti-social behaviour of marginalised youths which the Revolution has associated with the moral decay of capitalist societies.

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