Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Beijing. The Cuban leader has been in China to drum up business for its ailing tourism sector, something it desperately wants to revive since its near collapse during the pandemic. Host Marco Werman speaks with Richard Feinberg, a political economist, former diplomat and author of "Open
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Raul Castro has formally handed over the reins of Cuba’s Communist Party after decades as its first secretary, stepping down Friday during the first day of the party’s eighth congress.
The changing of the guard in the country’s most powerful institution represents a shift from the revolutionary leadership of the Castro era to a new generation. It also comes at a time when the country’s economy is struggling and in urgent need of reform.
Cuba’s economy shrank by 11 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to government figures, and travel restrictions hit the island’s tourism sector and the foreign currency it brings in particularly hard.