COMMENTS BY CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UN ON NEW GENERATION OF CUBAN LEADERS

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1981

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COUNTRY : CUBA
SUBJECT : COMMENTS BY CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UN ON NEW
GENERATION OF CUBAN LEADERS
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RAUL R 0 A fiCOURI, CUBAN AMBASSADOR
AND PERMANENT DELEGATE TO THE UNITED NATIONS, STATED THAT A NEW
GENERATION OF CUBAN LEADERS IS TAKING OVER THE BUREAUCRATIC
MACHINERY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA (GOC). ROA NOTED THAT THESE
NEW LEADERS, WHOSE AGES RANGE FROM APPROXIMATELY 35-45 YEARS OF
AGE, ARE TRAINED PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE ABOVE ALL, PRAGMATISTS.
2. ROA SAID THAT THE ROMANTICISM THAT MARKED THE EARLY
STAGES OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION WAS OVER AND OBSERVED THAT THIS
PERIOD WAS DOMINATED BY PEOPLE WHO, WHILE THEY HAD GIVEN EVERY-
THING TO THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, WERE AMATEURS AT RUNNING THE
GOVERNMENT. ROA SINGLED OUT CARLOS RAFAELRODRIGUEZ
RODRIGUEZ, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCILS OF STATE AND MINISTERS, 5
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3. ROA OBSERVED THAT HE FELT VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THE LEADERS
OF THIS NEW GENERATION WHO HAD BEEN TRAINED IN OTHER SOCIALIST
COUNTRIES. AS A RESULT OF THIS TRAINING, ROA NOTED THAT THESE NEW
LEADERS HAVE ESTABLISHED A NEW BUREAUCRACY AND A SOLID TECHNOCRACY
IN CUBA. HE SINGLED OUT RICARDOALARCONQUESEDA, VICE
MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS, AS BEING ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THIS
NEW GENERATION, BUT NOTED THAT CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDELCASTRO
RUZ IS AGELESS SINCE HE IS THE MAIN SYMBOL OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
4. COMMENTING ON CUBAN RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES, ROA
SAID THIS NEW GtIEPATION OF CUBAN LEADERS WOULD BE MORE PRAGMATIC
IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH THE U.S. THAN THE GOC HAD BEEN IN THE PAST.
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