To the beginning of the year 1959 Catros revolutionary movement took Power in Cuba. 60 years later the country slowly opens. But one thing will not change: the absolute claim to power of the Communist party.

60 years after the victory of the Cuban Revolutionaries over the dictator Fulgencio Batista, the party leadership has all of the citizens on the defence of socialism sworn in. “Satisfied and happy we are to see with their own eyes how new generations of socialism to build up. This is the only way to independence”, – said the head of the Communist party of Cuba and former President Raúl Castro in Santiago de Cuba.

“In the name of our people and full of optimism, I can say that Forever the Cuba live niche Revolution!”

Raúl Castro during his speech to the 60. Anniversary of the Revolution

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On new year’s day in 1959, had defeated the revolutionary army to Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl after two years of guerrilla fighting the government troops, rulers, Batista fled abroad. The Castro, built in the following decades, a socialist bulwark in the backyard of the United States. From the beginning the United States fought the Castro.

Fidel Castro was oriented politically more and more in the direction of the East. Financially Cuba depended for decades on the drip of the Soviet Union, and later countries such as China and Venezuela, took over their role as a donor.

A cautious Opening

health care and education on the Caribbean island, not a long time been considered as exemplary, freedom of expression, but there are until today. Castro warned in his speech to the 60. Anniversary, before a renewed confrontation with the United States. “We Cubans are not prepared for a confrontation, we want to and can avoid the cooler heads in the U.S. government, hopefully.”

in view of the growing economic pressure, the government has allowed the least a cautious Opening. So are now approved small businesses, real estate and cars are allowed to be sold freely. The absolute Power of the Communist party, however, remains untouched.

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