Ted Piccone

Brookings Institution

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Senior fellow and Deputy Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution; former Latin America Policy Advisor in the Clinton Administration

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For the first time in over 50 years a Castro will not be running the Cuban government. Miguel Díaz-Canel has been sworn in as Cuba’s new president.

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In 2008, Raul Castro took the Presidency of Cuba from his ailing brother Fidel.  Prior to last week's first Communist Party Central Committee meeting in 14 years, Raul promised…

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