20 April 2021
Cuba’s Communist Party has announced that Miguel Díaz-Canel will take over from Raúl Castro as the party’s first secretary. Relations between Cuba and the US were restored under Barack Obama; Donald Trump imposed sanctions and financial restrictions on his neighbour; more recently, Joe Biden has promised to resume remittances and travel between the two countries. In 2015, Janette Habel wrote of the challenges facing the island.
End of US embargo will flood Cuba with dollars
Some will be more equal than others
Relations are beginning to normalise between Cuba and the US last month a ferry service began from Florida, the first for more than 50 years. But the new Cuba may be a less stable society.