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What Castro's death and Trump's election mean for Cuba's economic awakening

  • Written by Brian Gendreau, Director, Latin American Business Environment program, University of Florida

Before his death on Nov. 25 at the age of 90, Fidel Castro had made no secret about his reservations about the normalization of relations with the United States and had insisted that the ideals of the Cuban Revolution would never be abandoned.

So following his death it is natural to wonder if the economic reforms initiated by his brother,...

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