Mexico City - Cuba's ruling Communist Party with the name of President Raul Castro as its new leader and chose an aging former guerrilla as a substitute Tuesday, dashing hopes party can younger politicians to implement business and fresh ideas to introduce major reforms on the island.
Mr. Castro was at the end of the first Communist Party Assembly in 14 years, 79 years old, as first Secretary, succeeding his brother Fidel, who last month said he had cleared the position ratified. The party 80, a hard-liner, tapped also José Ramón Machado as Mr Castro second - in - line's.
ENRIQUE DE LA OSA/Reuters Raúl Castro, right, followed his brother Fidel as party chief Tuesday.While the choice of Mr Castro was expected, the appointment of Mr Machado, a Vice President and former guerrillas disappointed during the revolution of 1959, who thought that the party might introduce new faces to the management of large economic reforms that are planned.
The Cuban economy grew only 1.9% in the last year and the country of top leaders, including Fidel Castro, old men are. The Party Summit had changes as an important opportunity for party leader, Manager, before there is axial to you by events, it was been seen death or demands for change by the Cuban people.
"they are on the hard-line ideological old guard, hold", said UVA de Aragon, Associate Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. "The problem is, that you try Stalin and Lenin, Gorbachev will be at the same time can not."
Reform is slow under the chairmanship of the younger Mr Castro, come, which promised the job in 2006, change some of the ways to Cuba. Last year, said Mr Castro Government would slash one million jobs from a bloated public sector and make it easier for people become too independent or open small businesses such as bicycle repairers or hair salons.
At the end of the Cuban Communist Party Congress - the first for 14 years, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro was formally as the head of the Cuban Communist Party. Video courtesy of Reuters and photo courtesy of Getty Images.The first half million cuts of public orders were until March to be completed, but the Cuban Government says, the layoffs appear to be to go much slower than expected. With a small private sector analysts say that the Cuban leadership struggling to find out how jobs for those dismissed provided.
Cuban officials also certainly know the recent turmoil in the Middle East, where a mixture of aging - elements present in Cuba - created a wave of riots, the Governments in Egypt guides, high unemployment and a young population and plunged Tunisia.
During the Summit the name of the Party on Tuesday a 15-member Politburo to future reforms in the coming years to control. But the Committee was also stacked with older members save for Marino Murillo, 50, of higher education Czar and Miguel Mario Díaz, 51, the country's economy Minister.
Heads of State and Government also have the problems that economy would open up the island, but terminated sessions without concrete policy measures, leaving most initiatives in the change. In one case, entrepreneurs supported proposals to lower tax rates as a means to promote panels. They discussed as Cuba's sugar production to increase and those who do not need food rations from the system, which since 1963 in the village.
An eye-catcher proposal would allow it to Cubans buy and sell their homes, some home master longed for have.
"It would be a big change," said Philip Peters a Cuba analyst for the Arlington, VA.,-Lexington Institute. "Is it in force then those, the title have suddenly have equity." "They as collateral can be used to start a business."
Cuba decision keep its old leadership, the pace of these changes in doubt can be however. While Mr Castro, the Party criticized for not having a younger generation of leaders groomed - even propose term limits handover ensure - say critics Havana will remain in the same hand for the foreseeable future.
"Heads of State and Government are caught by age, history and ideology," said Mrs de Aragón.
Write to Nicholas Casey on the nicholas.casey@wsj.com
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