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Cuba’s New Leaders Promise Continuity to a Population Seeking Change

The Editors Monday, Aug. 2, 2021
In late April, Cuba experienced a watershed moment when Miguel Diaz-Canel became the leader of the Cuban Communist Party, completing a political transition that began three years earlier when Diaz-Canel was inaugurated as president. Now, for the first time since the 1959 revolution, a Castro leads neither the country nor the party, making way for a new generation of leaders to chart the island nation’s path forward.
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Can AMLO Deliver on His Vision for Mexico’s Future?

The Editors Thursday, July 29, 2021
The election of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO, in July 2018 was supposed to result in a radical transformation for Mexico. But since taking office in December 2018, AMLO has struggled to deliver on his campaign promises, while playing catchup to Donald Trump’s quixotic threats linking trade and immigration. Now he will have to reboot relations with the U.S. under President Joe Biden.
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