SANTIAGO, Cuba — President Raul Castro returned Saturday to the military barracks where he and his brother Fidel launched Cuba’s revolution, addressing thousand of supporters amid questions about whether he will announce more changes to the island’s communist system.
Castro spoke as the sun set over the jagged peaks of the Sierra Maestra mountains that ring Santiago, Cuba’s second- largest city. At his back stood the Moncada military complex where he and Fidel led a band of rebels that launched an attack 55 years ago, planting the seeds for a revolution that succeeded in January 1959.
Since taking office five months ago, Raul Castro has opened more unused state land to private farmers, legalized cellphones for ordinary citizens and allowed some workers to seek legal title to their homes.
