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Raul Castro Confirms That He Leaves the Leadership of The Communist Party of Cuba

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Raúl Castro who was president of Cuba between 2006 and 2018, and who has led the PCC since 2011 succeeded his brother Fidel, confirmed that he would leave office to cede the reins of the organization to the new generations.

“I conclude my task as first secretary of the Central Committee of the PCC with the satisfaction of having fulfilled and confidence in the future of the homeland, with the thoughtful conviction not to accept proposals to remain in the upper organs of the party organization, in whose ranks I will continue to militate,” the former president said in a speech during the 8th Congress of the PC.

What Raul Castro announced this Friday was to be expected. In fact, he himself pushed for reform in 2016 that set the five-year two-term limit for communist leaders.

The age of 60 was also set as a limit for joining the Party Central Committee and 70 for management positions at the PCC.

Raul Castro’s efforts to modernize Cuba’s Soviet-style centrally planned economy have borne mixed results, with some initiatives moving forward, others stalled and still others either scuttled or yet to begin. The effort can best be viewed as building on policy changes Cuba initiated after the fall of the Soviet Union, for example allowing foreign investment and some mom-and-pop businesses.

Many of the economic reforms were made under Castro’s leadership who I consider to be an indispensable part of Cuba’s future.

Raul Castro presented the Main Report at the opening session of the 8th PCC Congress, which is also attended by President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who is a member of the party’s Political Bureau.

He said that the United States is the biggest threat to world peace and security, and that explains the burden of the blockade imposed on his country for six decades.

The PCC first secretary noted that despite international rejection, that hostile policy harms Cuba’s economic relations with practically all nations of the world.

He pointed out that many governments lack the ability to implement their own rules with companies based on their territories. It happens when the banks in those countries prioritize Washington’s line before the government’s political stances, he added.

Raul Castro recalled that the Donald Trump administration intensified the blockade against Cuba amid the Covid-19 pandemic, showing the ‘ruthless nature of imperialism’.

Since 2017, that administration imposed more than 240 coercive measures with unprecedented methods that took the economic war against Cuba to the most aggressive levels as reflected in the people’s shortages, the party leader stressed.

He rejected the campaigns to deny the damage caused by the blockade, and pointed out that the White House enlarged a list that currently includes 231 Cuban institutions, many of which supply basic products to the population or operate in the hotel and financial sectors.

The intention is to sabotage Cuba’s entrepreneurial system, break the State’s management and promote chaos by strangling the country and causing a social outburst, he noted.

Raul Castro added that financial persecution is a real hunt of Cuban transactions, thus making foreign trade more expensive and complicating Cuba’s payments. At the same time, Cuba has to allocate huge resources to fight the pandemic and maintain hospitals and healthcare centers at higher costs due to the effects of the US blockade, he stated.

Raul Castro described as immoral the campaign against Cuba’s medical cooperation in other countries, which has saved lives and benefited millions of people.

Despite all these, Cuba is willing to engage in a civilized relationship with the US, if and when conditions are not set on its socialism or the right to exercise full sovereignty and independence, and to develop its own foreign policy.

The 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) is today holding third working day, in which delegates will vote for those to be elected as members of the Central Committee, PCC´s highest body in charge of deciding on the number of members for the Political Bureau.

Younger members are expected to be elected to the 17-member Politburo before the end of the party congress, further clearing the body of what Cubans call the “historic generation,” the veterans of the armed revolution.

Plus, the Central Committee is in charge of implementing resolutions, policies and programs passed by the Congress that elected it.

Delegates to the 8th PCC Congress will study the candidacy project before voting late Sunday.

Three hundred PCC members will have the right to vote on behalf of the more than 700,000 members that make up the PCC. (Periódico Digital Centroamericano y del Caribe)

Original Sources: Agencies

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