Cuba's young communist map future without Castros

[naaman fletcher]

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100403-262147/Cubas-young-communist-map-future-without-Castros

"There will be no turnover, only continuity," said Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, Cuba's first vice president, in preparatory meetings for the conference, rejecting out of hand changes in the country's socialist system.

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Thousands of young Cubans do not work and show no interest in working, used to a paternalistic state taking care of them and turned off by salaries that amount to the equivalent of 20 dollars a month.

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young people here have been affected more than most by the hardships of daily life, the growing inequality and the "collapse of expectations," a recent analysis in the party organ Juventud Rebelde said.

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The revolutionary slogans and appeals that moved their parents provoke indifference at best in many young people, prompting the authorities to intensify ideological education.

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