HAVANA: Fidel Castro and the Cuban communist party have given the green light for reforms paving the way for a new, younger generation of leaders in the single-party state, state media said yesterday.
As expected, Sunday’s session of Cuba’s National Assembly re-elected Castro’s 82-year-old brother Raul to serve a second and final five-year presidential term.
But the assembly also promoted Miguel Diaz-Canel, 52, already a member of the Council of State, to a senior vice presidency of that panel, making him the number two figure in the regime.
AFP
