HAVANA, (Reuters) – President Raul Castro’s admission at a Communist Party congress that Cuba lacks successors for its aging leaders underlined the old guard’s inability to give up power and its struggle to preserve the Revolution.
Addressing the congress that ended on Tuesday, Castro gave a litany of reasons for the failure to find new faces and vowed to look for candidates from groups that have been neglected before, including non-members of the party.
The leadership issue is a serious problem for the 79-year-old president, who wants to ensure the survival of