2023-04-20 13:44:20
The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, was reelected without surprises this April 19 for a second and last term of five years, with the vote of 97.66% of the Parliament deputies.
Without surprises, the Cuban National Assembly re-elected Miguel Díaz-Canel as president for a second and final term. He remains in office for five more years, a period of continuity and challenges, especially in the economic sphere, which he must overcome to stop the largest exodus in the country’s recent history.
Balance with contrasts
A 62-year-old electronic engineer, the Cuban president, who received 459 votes in favor of the 462 deputies present in the legislative session, will lead his second government in a context of economic crisis, shortages and popular discontent on the communist island, after leaving a balance with contrasts of his first term.
Florida International University political analyst Jorge Duany highlights his reforms: “Dio pie for what with will perform las companies private, What what occurred later, with las little, medians y micro companies. Y lately, in he 2022, with approved and nuevo Code of the Family, what also open the puerta for the legalization of los marriages in between personas of the same sex, the weigh of a opposition quite notable of determined churches,” he estimates.
great challenges
The challenges are great. Cubans are still very aware of the repression of the protests of July 11, 2021 and also the economic crisis that is shaking the country. According to Jorge Duany, the problems are several: “The economic recession, the drop in the Gross Domestic Product in 2020 by 11%, the fact that there is still a great shortage of food, medicine, fuel, which overwhelms the population, the constant electricity blackouts, a migratory crisis that does not seem finish… Although the number of Cubans who have entered through the United States-Mexico border has decreased, last year the highest number in history was registered, more than 225,000 Cubans detained at the border,” he stresses.
“I want to say that this continuous economic, political, and demographic pressure is going to continue to overwhelm Cuban society, a society that is becoming one of the oldest in the world. That is definitely a problem, the inability of the social security and pension systems to be able to satisfy their basic needs”, emphasizes the analyst.
Future relations with the United States
For Duany, the question of future relations between Cuba and the United States “es a gran question mark, why by and side it depends in are mayor amount of las decisions what can to take he Government Cuban, salvo what I was willing a do some serie of reforms policies y economic what he Government of States Joined ha state complaining by a lot time. Specifically the release of los prisoners politicians, about all los what were imprisoned after of the 11 of july, the opening a and system of parties multiple, las elections free, what van a to be very difficult of achieve. Me looks what this no it is in the agenda why is nuevo Government of Díaz Cinnamon”.
“Y by other part”, he continues, “also las decisions what can to take the Administration Biden of pursue con a serie of measurements what could relax las sanctions what imposed the administration anterior of Trump. until the date no with he carried a cabo, except measurements what with he taken for favor las remittances of los Cuban Americans y los trips a the isla. But apart of those, looks haber and time of break in the policy of States Joined toward Cuba, y es very difficult imagine what with can advance in the normalization of las relations in between los of the countries in los Upcoming cinco years”.
On the other hand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Havana on Wednesday night, where he will hold talks with the president on the last stop of his tour of Latin America, the Foreign Ministry reported.
Miguel Díaz-Canel has governed Cuba since 2018 and is the first civilian to take the reins of the country after the mandates of the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, who held power since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959.
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