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Cuba’s Castro dynasty has officially ended.
On April 16, 2021, Raúl Castro â younger brother of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro â relinquished his position as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most powerful position in Cuba.
Castro, 89, became Cuba’s president in 2008, after his brotherâs incapacitation, and took over the first secretary role from Fidel in 2011. Fidel Castro died in 2016.
Just as Fidel’s death did not suddenly transform antagonistic U.-Cuban ties, neither does Raúl Castro’s departure.
Cuban President Miguel DÃaz Canel, who took office in 2018 after Raúl Castro stepped down as president, has resisted calls for democratic reforms and has pressing economic issues to manage, as well as a pandemic.
Staff of Cuban press freedom group ICLEP lose internet service, fear targeted disruption
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A Cuban blogger checks her channel on a cellphone at Havana’s Malecon, Cuba, 27 February 2018, YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images “It can be no accident that nearly 50 independent Cuban journalists lost internet service on the same day,” said CPJ. “Cuban authorities must ensure that [ICLEP] employees have full access to the internet and can carry out their work without interference.”
This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 4 March 2021.
Cuban authorities must ensure that journalists and staff at the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP) are able to access the internet, and should allow its journalists to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.Since February 24, dozens of employees of ICLEP, a Cuban press freedom organization that also publishes seven free n