Diaz-Canel’s back is against the wall here because there have been unprecedented massive protests. It was only in April that he became head of the Communist Party and he lacks the aura that the Castros had, so he’s not in a very strong position here. He does have the apparatus of the Cuban regime and the security forces, but they’ve not had to contend with such a serious challenge to their authority in the past.
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