A hint of change in Cuba
USA TODAY, April, 2008
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By most measures, Cuba's new president, Raul Castro, would seem to be no Mikhail Gorbachev. Raul is the younger brother of Fidel Castro, 81, who ruled Cuba with a communist iron grip for half a century until stepping down in February after a prolonged illness. Raul, 76, would seem more like the two elderly leaders who succeeded the doddering Leonid Brezhnev and quickly died in the 1980s Soviet Union -- before Gorbachev took over with his relative youth, charisma and reforms.
And yet.
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Slowly, with little notice, President Raul Castro has been enacting changes. They are small-bore, to be sure, but increasingly numerous. Cubans, for example, now have access to cellphones and other modern-age electrical goods, such as computers. They can stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners. Foreign programs are appearing on TV. State workers can more easily own their homes and pass them on to their children, though ...
