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A Castro will no longer lead Cuba. But Castro family still has influence.
Some descendants of Fidel and Raúl Castro serve in government, while others have come under fire for flaunting a lavish lifestyle amid soaring inequality.
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Fidel Castro, left, and his brother, Cuban President Raúl Castro, talk during the 2018 opening session of the National Assembly in Havana on Sunday. Fidel Castro died in 2016 and Raúl Castro recently announced that he will step down as first secretary of Cubaâs Communist Party, the most powerful position in the country. A new generation of Castros are building influence, while others have drawn criticism for flaunting a lavish lifestyle amid soaring inequality.
Paul Cobb, Publisher, Post News Group
The Oakland Post Salon Community Assembly will hold a Zoom meeting this Sunday, April 18 to investigate the Oakland Unified School District’s state-imposed overseers and call for a return – after 20 years – of local voters’ control over their public schools.
Speakers at the Post Salon will include Jackie Goldberg, member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education and former State Assemblymember; Oakland school board members VanCedric Williams and Mike Hutchinson; Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, OUSD parent and teacher; Dr. Nirali Jani, education professor at Holy Names University and a former Oakland teacher; Frankie Ramos, doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley and OUSD parent; and Paul Cobb, publisher of the Oakland Post.
Raul Castro has formally handed over the reins of Cuba’s Communist Party after decades as its first secretary, stepping down Friday during the first day of the party’s eighth congress.
The changing of the guard in the country’s most powerful institution represents a shift from the revolutionary leadership of the Castro era to a new generation. It also comes at a time when the country’s economy is struggling and in urgent need of reform.
Cuba’s economy shrank by 11 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to government figures, and travel restrictions hit the island’s tourism sector and the foreign currency it brings in particularly hard.
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