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May 5, 2023

What Challenges Face Cuba’s Leader in His Second Term?

Last month, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel won a second five-year term. // File Photo: @DiazCanelB via Twitter.

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  • Cuba’s legislature on April 19 re-elected President Miguel Díaz-Canel to a second five-year term. Díaz-Canel, the head of the country’s Communist Party, was the only candidate. He received the support of 459 of the 462 lawmakers present for the vote. Díaz-Canel assumed Cuba’s presidency in 2018, becoming the country’s first civilian leader after more than a half-decade of rule by brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro. What has Díaz-Canel achieved during his first five years in office, and what challenges does he face ahead? What does his re-election mean for the state of democracy in Cuba? What will another five years of Díaz-Canel’s administration mean for Cuba’s diplomatic ties in Latin America and the Caribbean?

A

Paul Webster Hare, senior lecturer at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and former British ambassador to Cuba: “Díaz-Canel has provided the continuity the Castros wanted and has not yet developed an agenda that challenges their legacy. His first term covered the pandemic, which led to the collapse of tourism and dire economic conditions for Cubans through inflation along with drastic cutbacks in imports that Cuba was forced to make. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have left the country in the last two years—an estimated 2 percent of the population. Díaz-Canel has survived and has generally used the Castro playbook to explain Cuba’s predicament and why the protests of 2021 erupted. He has blamed the U.S. embargo and has not chosen or been allowed to express any recognition of his own government’s accountability. In foreign policy, he has reverted to Cuba’s traditional authoritarian allies to…”

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