With Melissa Block It\u2019s the end of an era in Cuba, as President Ra\u00fal Castro steps down. After Cuba\u2019s National Assembly nominated Cuban First Vice President<\/b>
\nWith Melissa Block
It\u2019s the end of an era in Cuba, as President Ra\u00fal Castro steps down. After Cuba\u2019s National Assembly nominated Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace Castro, we\u2019ll look at what\u2019s next for the country.
Guests:
Alan Gomez, immigration reporter at USA Today. ( @alangomez)
Patrick Oppmann, CNN Correspondent based in Havana, Cuba. ( @CNN_Oppmann)
Pedro Freyre, International Practice Chair at the Miami-based firm Akerman, which specializes in helping U. S. companies do business in Cuba.
Carlos Eire, Professor of history and religious studies at Yale University, author of \u201cWaiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy\u201d (2003) and \u201cLearning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy\u201d (2010).
Achy Obejas, Cuban-American writer and translator. ( @achylandia)
From the reading list:
CNN: Cuba\u2019s National Assembly nominates Miguel Diaz-Canel to succeed Raul Castro as president \u2014 \u201cCuba\u2019s first vice president is the apparent successor to Raul Castro: the 57-year-old technocrat D\u00edaz-Canel, who has promised to hew closely to the course set by the Castro brothers. \u2018I believe in continuity,\u2019 D\u00edaz-Canel told reporters recently when asked about his vision for Cuba\u2019s future. \u2018I think there always will be continuity.\u2019
\u2018Continuity\u2019 most likely means continued restrictions on the private sector for Cubans, tight controls on foreign investment and no openings to the single-party political system.\u201d
Miami Herald: Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel is the only official candidate for Cuba\u2019s next president \u2014 \u201cIn the past year, the Cuba leadership has increasingly thrust D\u00edaz-Canel, a former education minister, into the spotlight, making him the face of hurricane recovery efforts after Irma slammed the island last September, sending him on foreign trips and making him available for symbolic photo ops. But few Cubans know what to expect from the man who became first vice president of the Council of State and Council of Ministers in 2013 and has managed to survive the treacherous waters of Cuban politics for five years.\u201d
In Cuba, six decades of Castro rule come to an end, as Ra\u00fal Castro steps down as President. His hand-picked successor represents a younger generation, born after the revolution. But how much will change? Have recent economic reforms in Cuba born fruit? And what\u2019s the effect of President Trump rolling back policies of the Obama administration \u2013 that moved toward normalized relations?
This hour, On Point: the way forward in Cuba, after the Castros.
\u2014 Melissa Block<\/p>\n

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