Cuba's President Raul Castro and First Vice President Miguel Diaz Canel are seen on a TV screen inside a restaurant as they arrive for a session of the National Assembly in Havana Cuba
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became the first worldwide leader to pay an official state visit to Cuba following the election of Miguel Diaz-Canel to the office of president.
Unfortunately, the answer is probably not.
Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow in the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, told Herald Radio that Diaz-Canel was more of the same.
China has congratulated Cuba on its election of a new president, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Friday.
Facing biological reality but still active and apparently healthy, Raul Castro stepped down as president in an effort to guarantee that new leaders can maintain the government's grip on power in the face of economic stagnation, an ageing population and increasing disenchantment among younger generations. Cubans on the island speculated about a weak president sharing power with the head of the communist party, or maybe a newly created post of prime minister.
On Saturday, Maduro and Diaz-Canel attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a monument dedicated to Cuban National Hero and renowned Latin American literature writer Jose Marti in Havana before commencing talks at the Palace of the Revolution.
Bolivian president Evo Morales is expected to greet Diaz-Canel in Cuba on Monday.
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Castros shadow will give Diaz-Canel the opportunity to consolidate his authority, but it also likely means that Cuba will not move toward democratic reform any time soon.
Still, the Soviet-style command economy employs three of every four Cuban workers and produces little, while private sector growth has been largely frozen since previous year.
Perhaps more importantly, Castro's 90-minute valedictory speech offered his first clear plan for a president whom Castro seemed to envision as the heir to near-total control of the country's political system, which in turn dominates virtually every aspect of life in Cuba.
The Trump administration has gone backward by putting a halt to the reset in relations with Cuba that former President Barack Obama rightly championed.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese president, has sent a congratulatory message to Diaz-Canel. People there describe him as a hard-working, modest-living technocrat dedicated to improving public services.
In a video of a Communist Party meeting inexplicably leaked to the public previous year, Diaz-Canel expressed a series of orthodox positions that included a sombrepledge to curb some independent media and labelling some European embassies as outposts of foreign subversion.
But he has also defended academics and bloggers who became targets of hard-liners, leading some to describe him a potential advocate for greater openness in a system intolerant of virtually any criticism or dissent. Worldwide observers and Cubans alike will be scrutinising every move he makes.
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