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Via Ria Novosti:
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin has been appointed ambassador to Cuba, the ministry announced on Monday. Kamynin, 51, served as ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2002 to 2005, and as a counselor to the Russian Embassy in Havana from 1999 to 2002. He also served two four-year stints at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico from 1978 and 1987. The new ambassador will be replacing Andrei Dmitriyev, 67, who had held the post since June 2000.
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The recent changes implemented by Cuba’s government (i.e., domestic appliances, cars, cell phones, and hotels now accessible to the populace) although positive, they do not go to the root of economic, social and political problems facing the country, writes Pedro Anibal Riera Escalante in La Nueva Cuba.
Riera Escalante under the cover of Cuban consul, was chief of Cuba’s Intelligence Center in Mexico City in the 1990s where he was sent to surveil and penetrate Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations in Central America. Years later, Riera Escalante was involved in an incident, which turned into an international scandal. Believing that he was going to defect in Mexico, the Cuban regime ordered operatives to kidnap Riera bringing him to Cuba in less than 24 hours with cooperation of Mexico’s government. In Cuba, Riera served years in prison, and was later set free.
Riera emphasizes:
While dissidents and opposition are not permitted to have access to the press, these measures, do not really constitute a democratic opening in the country.
Might this point of view be the growing mindset of a faction within Cuba’s intelligence apparatus acknowledging Cuba’s political state through Riera’s written voice?
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