“He didn’t have much of a mandate, and so he did not promote policies somehow that were easily identifiable as for the good of the majority of the people," Farnsworth said.
Rapid fall from power, arrest for embattled Peru president
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Eric Farnsworth, who heads the Washington office of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, said in an interview Monday that the weekend uprising represented “an explosion of frustration” from ordinary Cubans who feel the ruling Communist Party is failing them.
Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba's untested president, faces biggest challenge of post-Castro era
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