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Why Raul Castro is happy Fidel is gone
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What will the newly liberated Raul Castro look like as a leader? He remains as poorly understood today as at any time in his more than 60 years in public life, in large part because he has existed in the shadow of his more charismatic brother. For decades there have been contradictory images of the dogmatic enforcer and the overly sensitive patsy, but the strongest clue as to what kind of leader Raul would be emerged when he took nominal control of the country after Fidel’s illness in 2006. It has been a challenging decade for Raul who often found that his boldest reform initiatives were undermined by his weakened but still meddlesome brother who demanded until the end fidelity to his decades-long revolution. But the economic and social pressures facing Cuba give Raul little choice except to make the dramatic changes that he has long wanted to enact.
Publication Date
12-2016
Publisher
Politico
Disciplines
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
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Latell, Brian, "Why Raul Castro is happy Fidel is gone" (2016). Research Publications. 25.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/jgi_research/25
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