The Granma, explained

In what we have described as an inequivocal sign of the process of dismantling of the myth of fidel castro, the Gramna goes and published another drivel attributed to the beast in which he waxes about "centrally controlled economy", goes on lamenting "the necesary evil of foreign corporations, investments, and join ventures", and vowes not to "inundate the country with hard currency because that'd be equivalent to sell its sovereignty".
Do you remember that raul castro just ordered a study from Cuba's top economists, and that the results of that study simply recomend the contrary?
Those economists were steamrolled a few years ago when they presented a similar paper to fidel castro, who told them that "what you want is to bury the revolution" before demoting them and sending them to do menial work in the same institutes where they were reknown academics and investigators. Vengeance was served then in the shape of humilliation.
Since the communist method asks for total dismantling of the myth of the superhuman dictator as the most important premise for succession, now his own brother raul is delivering the coup the grace to the wounded beast.
The new economic doctrine was leaked all over.
Professionals in Cuba are discussing it everywhere, the public is taking it with a grain of salt, and then the Granma says the beast says no way, no fucking way!
So, the Granma is actually placing the blame on the "author" of those "reflexions", and it's telling people "hey, this is what HE says, but.... Raul wants you to be better off!" And then raul doesn't publish anything, or gives a speech or shows up anywhere to discuss it. No. He LEAKS IT. He calls for a meeting with a bunch of his corrupted goons, and OF COURSE, information that contradicts what fidel castro writes GETS LEAKED onto the "torrent of information" the population deals with. C'est a dire, gasoline is poured straight into the fire.

Let's see:
Step 1 - Raul "talks" economics - rumor. A bunch of economists are brought back from government impossed ostracism to draw a new economic doctrine to save the revolution. Lage goes against it. Alarcon mumble-jumbles and his position is not clear.

Step 2 - Fidel is dead then, and undead now - cyclic rumor, he's dying his well deserved thousand deaths, at least in the realm of fantasy.

Step 3 - Rauls "takes" a trip - rumor "semi-confirmed" by the European press in a "vague" way. Cuba denies it.

Step 4 - Castro "writes" an economic pamphlet full of absurdities -gets published in Granma. Blames the international left for what he feels is an intervention in Cuba's internal administration policies.

Step 5 - Raul is back in Cuba, if he ever left. Nobody sees him, but he has meetings and "leaks" information contrary to what castro says...

Step 6 - Alarcon shows up in a LASA event in Montreal, an academic meeting on Latin America, and nobody know where the monies for him to attend came from, since it's an American sponsored event. Then he is vague and there's no suggestions that Castro is coming back. He is probably meeting with some American big wigs in secrecy.

Step 7 - El Mico Putumayo Chavez says that he doesn't know about Castro coming back to power, that it's not part of his job description as tyrant of Venezuela and that it doesn't fall under his governance. The task to ensure the castroification of Latin America has been thrown on his lap.

As you can see, the new dictator to be, Raul, really got a game plan. It's safe to say that the announcement of the death of the dictator will be dragged as much as possible unless a particular event tips the scales the other way and it's deemed convenient to rush an announcement.

What could trigger an announcement?

1- Raul get sick and they fear the worse, because they cannot afford that Raul dies before Fidel.
2- A deal with the USA is reached. Again, what's Alarcon doing in Montreal?
3- Enough reassurance of international recognition is received, in the form of trade guarantees, credits, and so on.

Everything is being prepared.....