Cuba Replaces Official With Close Castro Ties
A senior Cuban official seen as one of President Fidel Castro’s closest political aides in the Communist Party leadership is being replaced in two key active party posts, party officials said Wednesday.
The officials, who asked not to be identified, said that Carlos Aldana will hand over his responsibilities as head of the Departments of Ideology and International Relations to Jose Ramon Balaguer, a former ambassador to the ex-Soviet Union.
It is a major change in Cuba’s Communist Party leadership at a time when it is facing the country’s worst-ever economic crisis and mounting international pressure to abandon one-party communism.
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