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Latin American Economy & Business - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Cuba: Which way for Díaz-Canel?
In April Cuba’s national assembly voted in Miguel Díaz-Canel as the country’s new president, replacing Raúl Castro, who had been in office since 2006. For the first time in six decades the presidency has gone to someone whose surname is not Castro. What does this mean for economic policy? Díaz-Canel faces conflicting pressures to liberalise – and not to liberalise – the Cuban economy. It is likely that not much will change in the short term, but the new president can be expected to try to resume reform efforts that ran out of steam during Raúl’s tenure.
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