Raul Castro is the new leader in Cuba. The Cuban parliament named Fidel’s brother as the new head of Cuba on Sunday. The vote came just five days after Fidel Castro announced he was retiring.
With Raul in place there is likely to be no major shift in the way the communist government operates on the [...]
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