With a mere 11 months to go before President Raúl Castro has pledged to step down from power and relinquish his position as head of the Cuban council of state and council of ministers, there is growing concern both inside Cuba’s one-party Communist political system and outside the country about what is not being done in preparation, both on the political and economic fronts.

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