"A 57-year-old bureaucrat will take Raul Castro's place as the president of Cuba on Thursday as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure the long-term survival of one of the world's last communist states.
Members of the National Assembly voted Wednesday on Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez's nomination as the sole candidate for president. The result won't be officially announced until Thursday morning but it's already clear because the assembly approves all executive branch proposals by margins of 95 percent or higher." foxnews.com/world/2018/04/19/bureaucrat-set-to-replace-raul-castro-as-cubas-president.html [foxnews.com]
U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks" soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/09/30/0056251 [soylentnews.org]
President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/06/16/1914255 [soylentnews.org]