{"id":237627,"date":"2021-04-16T19:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=237627"},"modified":"2021-04-16T19:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:55:35","slug":"cuba-raul-castro-confirms-he-will-leave-communist-partys-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/politics-in-cuba\/cuba-raul-castro-confirms-he-will-leave-communist-partys-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: Ra\u00fal Castro confirms he will leave Communist Party\u2019s leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former Cuban president and until now leader of the island\u2019s Communist Party (PCC), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/tag\/raul-castro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ra\u00fal Castro<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, confirmed this Friday that he will cease to be the First Secretary of the political organization, a position he has held for ten years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his presentation of the Central Report of the 8th Congress of the PCC, which began this morning in Havana, Castro said that his work at the head of the party \u201cconcludes with the satisfaction of having fulfilled the trust in the future of the homeland, with the thought-out conviction of not accepting a proposal to keep me in higher positions in the party organization.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNothing compels me to make this decision, but I fervently believe in the strength and value of the example and understanding of my compatriots,\u201d he said, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubadebate.cu\/noticias\/2021\/04\/16\/raul-castro-inaugura-en-la-habana-el-8vo-congreso-del-partido-comunista-de-cuba-presenta-informe-central\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quoted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the official Cubadebate website.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Video?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Video<\/a> Ra\u00fal Castro: Mientras viva estar\u00e9 listo con el pie en el estribo para defender a la Patria, la Revoluci\u00f3n y el socialismo <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XfHeclXabq\">https:\/\/t.co\/XfHeclXabq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Partido Comunista de Cuba (@PartidoPCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PartidoPCC\/status\/1383142164004278276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 89-year-old former president, who three years ago left the country\u2019s presidency in the hands of Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, assured that, nevertheless, he will continue to be a member of the PCC \u201cas one more revolutionary fighter, ready to make my modest contribution to the end of life\u201d and that as long as he lives he will be \u201cready to defend socialism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Castro also highlighted the work carried out by D\u00edaz-Canel, who is expected to also take over the leadership of the PCC. He said of him that \u201che is not the result of improvisation\u201d and that he has been carrying out his position \u201cwith good results,\u201d adding that as president \u201che has been able to form a team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have the satisfaction that we are handing over the leadership of the country to a group of prepared leaders, hardened by decades of work from the base and committed to the ethics of the Revolution and socialism; with great sensitivity towards the people, full of passion and anti-imperialist spirit and looking out for the continuity of the work of the Revolution,\u201d he pointed out in another part of his speech before the delegates gathered at the Convention Center, despite the re-outbreak of COVID-19 in the Cuban capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Relations with the U.S. and the economy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During his speech, the also Army General denounced the U.S. government\u2019s \u201cincreased hostility\u201d in recent years and insisted on Cuba\u2019s willingness to promote a respectful dialogue \u201cwithout concessions inherent to its sovereignty and independence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Castro, who during his presidency promoted the thaw with the United States, deplored the tightening of Washington\u2019s sanctions, even during the coronavirus pandemic, and said that the more than 200 measures against Cuba imposed during Donald Trump\u2019s term in office are an expression of the \u201cruthless nature of imperialism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He described the U.S. policy towards Cuba as a \u201creal hunt\u201d and criticized that Washington seeks to \u201csabotage the business system, make the State\u2019s management fail and promote chaos, strangling the country and provoking social unrest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">El General de Ej\u00e9rcito Ra\u00fal Castro reafirm\u00f3 que el desarrollo de la econom\u00eda nacional junto a la lucha por la paz y la firmeza ideol\u00f3gica, constituyen misiones para el <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PCC<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CubaSocialista?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CubaSocialista<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/8voCongresoPCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#8voCongresoPCC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NaDqF4OPah\">pic.twitter.com\/NaDqF4OPah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Partido Comunista de Cuba (@PartidoPCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PartidoPCC\/status\/1383126280162439169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former Cuban president assured that the development of the national economy is today, together with \u201cthe struggle for peace and ideological firmness,\u201d one of the \u201cmain missions\u201d of the PCC. In addition, he called for defending the increase in national production, especially food, and to banish the \u201charmful habit of importing,\u201d according to state press reports cited by the Spanish EFE news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The leader added that \u201cthe country must get used to living with what we have and not expect more than what we are capable of generating, as long as the unsatisfied demands of the population constitute an incentive for national producers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 8th Congress of the PCC continued this afternoon in three working commissions. The first, headed by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, addressed the country\u2019s socio-economic issues; the second, chaired by the veteran Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Machado Ventura, would focus on the functioning of the political organization and ideological activity; and the third, led by D\u00edaz-Canel, would assess the policy of state and government cadres, \u201cas well as the role of the Party to achieve higher results,\u201d Cubadebate <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubadebate.cu\/noticias\/2021\/04\/16\/delegados-al-congreso-del-partido-inician-trabajo-en-comisiones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the conclave of Cuban communists, whose motto is \u201cunity and continuity,\u201d not only is the already confirmed departure of Ra\u00fal Castro from his party leadership post expected, but also a broader generational change, with the withdrawal of the so-called \u201chistorical generation\u201d that would give way to leaders born after the 1959 Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EFE\/OnCuba<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNothing compels me to make this decision, but I fervently believe in the strength and value of the example and understanding of my compatriots,\u201d said the former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":237628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13902,13910],"tags":[34202,18961],"ppma_author":[33546],"class_list":["post-237627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-politics-in-cuba","tag-comunist-party","tag-cuban-government"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 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