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HAVANA — Raul Castro announced Saturday that Cuba will cut spending on education and health care, potentially weakening the building blocks of its communist system in a bid to revive a floundering economy.
The Cuban president called state spending “simply unsustainable” and said the cash-strapped government would reorganize rural schools and scrutinize its free health care system in search of ways to save money.
But he vowed the island will not see fundamental change even after he and his older brother and predecessor, Fidel Castro, are gone. “I wasn’t elected president to return capitalism to Cuba,” he said.
