Cuba: National Assembly President to Leave His Post
|
Version 0 of 1. Ricardo Alarcón will leave his post as president of Cuba’s National Assembly in February after two decades on the job, furthering a gradual generational transition that President Raúl Castro has recently begun to prioritize. The government recently elevated its foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, to the Communist Party’s political bureau, and with the departure of Mr. Alarcón, 75, analysts said the groundwork was being laid for a time when neither the Castros nor their contemporaries governed. He served for years as Cuba’s main point man on relations with the United States, and he has often been described as Cuba’s third-most powerful official. But Mr. Alarcón was also seen as a loyalist of Fidel more than Raúl, and speculation about his fate has been swirling since last summer, when the police arrested one of his top aides on suspicion of corruption and spying. |