oversees the intelligence apparatus, a la hydro castro who is a kernel, who was the point person -- alejandro castroho is a colonel. and then he has his son-in-law who runs the economy with the conglomerate known as the controls. that is 85% of the economy. he has his daughter who is in a key position within the national assembly. it remains a family enterprise. brent: so you say it is not the castro's giving up or receiving power at all. john: it is not, and is not the first time. between 1959 and 1976 cuba had a president that wasn't named castro. that did not in any way limit the absolute power of the castro brothers to do what they wanted to do in cuba. brent: let me play devil's advocate. from where your sitting in miami , you were at the epicenter of the cuban diaspora, all the exiles, many of them are still there to this day. we know they are not a friend of the castro regime, but perhaps mr. diaz-canel, perhaps he is the trigger that is needed to take power away from the castro's and to bring in some type of democratic if not a revolution, and evolution. do you think that is possible that? j

he'll probably die in the next couple of years as his brother already has and he has his son alejandro castro a colonel in the cuban intelligence service who was the point man in the negotiations between the united states and cuba and the normalization of relations not mr de is going to. row castro ties his daughter my d.l. acosta who is also in the national assembly and has important positions in the government and his son in law general by the name of rodriguez is the man who runs the economy in cuba so you can already see the the structure there of a dynastic succession of then truly you referenced the economy there and i want to pick up on that because this new president does have a very difficult balancing act to a carry out the economy desperately needs to be resuscitated in cuba and this is happening just as the u.s. is completely stepping away and taking on a more isolated isolationist position do you think he's the man to do it. as i said this is it's an apparatus it's not an individual i think the main crisis economically for cuba has been the implosion of venezuela i think that the