The Cuban Communist Party’s Eighth Congress took place in Havana on April 16-19, five years after the previous one. President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who had just replaced former President Raúl Castro as first secretary of the party’s Central Committee, delivered the closing remarks. Castro is retiring from public life. Centering on the congress’s theme of continuity, … Continue reading Díaz-Canel offers blunt truth on Cuban economy at party congress