Cuban exiles in Florida react to transition of power in their homeland

(19 Apr 2018) At the epicenter of Cuba politics on the streets of Miami in little Havana outside Café Versailles, Cuban exiles shout from loudspeakers and rip up signs in protest of the communist country from which they hail.
"They want to put a new face to the situation, Raul delivers the power, and comes another king to take the power."  Says Miguel Saavedra, an activist working to restore human rights to the citizens of Cuba.  
Saavedra, echoing what many Cuban exiles believe; Castro officially stepping down as president doesn't matter.  There's no real change.
Castro will remain in politics as the head of the island nation's communist party.  
One of the strongest critics of Cuban politics in the U.S. government has called the island's new president a "thug" who is just the "same as the old boss."
Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen says Cuba's changeover wont' help diplomatic relations under new president Miguel Diaz-Canel.  
Castro officially stepping down ends a 60 year reign of Castro's ruling over the country in the top government position, but the Cuban-born lawmaker says that as long as Raul Castro is there, there really are no changes.
" Yes, it is different that after so many years no last name of Castro is supposedly heading this regime, but it doesn't matter.  
It is the whole system that is corrupt.  
It the communist, authoritarian, totalitarian regime.  
It doesn't matter who the figurehead is, it doesn't matter who the president is, it's the whole system that is corrupt and has to change."  Ros-Lehtinen said.


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