Cuba’s “New Guard Looks Like Old Guard”

Written by Pat's Papers | Wednesday, 20 April 2011 8:35 AM

The next generation would be the wrong way to describe the change in leadership in Cuba. As the Miami Herald puts it, the “new guard looks a lot like the old guard.” At 80 years old, the new number two in the country’s communist party is just about as old as the “almost ghost-like” Fidel Castro. The party’s new number three? A 79-year-old hardliner. The average age of the Politburo and Central Committee, with the new appointees’ ages factored in, is 68. The Herald says the announcement dashed any hopes of generational change in leadership, something many Cubans had hoped for.

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