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Raúl Castro Shakes Things Up in Cuba

Despite President Raúl Castro’s promise to reform the stale bureaucracy in Cuba his first year in office passed with little happenstance outside the ‘business as usual’ politics that were practiced by the former president, Mr. Castro’s older brother Fidel.

After a year of deflated expectations, however, President Castro decided to shake up Cuba’s government on Monday by replacing some of the country’s most familiar political leaders.

Among those ousted was current Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque and several others who were reportedly very close to Fidel Castro during his tenure as Cuba’s president.

“Raúl promised more than he delivered in his first year, and you can view these cabinet changes as an explicit acknowledgment of that by Raúl himself,” said Daniel Erikson, who is the director of Caribbean programs at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington.

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