The former senator from the ruling Colorado Party is expected to maintain the current president’s business-friendly policies with reforms to security, education, and health.
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"The real challenge will be how this president can work to maintain Cuba's socialist economic model," the head of AS/COA's Cuba Working Group said on the network's program The Heat.
"Ele é jovem, mas se esforçou para progredir dentro do Partido Comunista. Parece alguém capaz de se conectar mais com as pessoas, ser mais aberto", diz Alana Tummino, líder do Cuba Working Group da AS/COA, sobre o que se poderia esperar do novo presidente cubano.
"Because it was a Castro who was introducing these reforms, there was a lot more willingness to implement them," said AS/COA's Cuba Working Group Head Alana Tummino on the prospects for further opening in the island under Miguel Díaz-Canel's leadership.
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