Cuba: Castro’s Keynote Speech · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“So Raul described large problems that are of great interest to average Cubans…he is creating public expectations that some kind of change is coming, and that in time it will measure up to the challenges he himself has defined,” writes The Cuban Triangle of Castro's 26th July speech, while Child of the Revolution asks, “How do we read Raul Castro’s keynote address in Camaguey?  Reformist? More of the same? Full of contradictions?”