RHC´s English language broadcast for April 17 - 2021
Cuba will have a new first secretary of its Communist Party, marking an end to the "Castro era" according to practically every headline in the mainstream western media, however, the Party Congress going on as we speak addresses many, and much more pressing issues for this country… The current First Secretary of the Party, Army General, Raul Castro read at the inaugural session of the Congress the report that can be seen as the program that will lead the discussions in the following days… The Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba is underway in a context of a profound economic crisis, a pandemic that sees an average of a thousand cases per day registered in this country, and it will be the last Congress with the historic generation at the forefront, the one that built the Revolution in the 60s..Hi, this is Cuba today. I am Cristina Escobar and you are listening to Radio Havana Cuba…