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By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro told parliament on Saturday the communist country's market-oriented reforms must remain gradual, a clear signal he would resist calls to accelerate change in order to address an underperforming economy. He also praised Cubans for "defeating imperialism" by resisting U.S. aggression ever since the 1959 Cuban revolution. Since taking over for his ailing older brother Fidel in 2008, Raul Castro, 83, has enacted widespread reforms such as turning state enterprises into private cooperatives, freeing Cubans to work in small private businesses, and reducing the role of the state in everyday life. "The gradual nature of a series of activities that we are approving is indispensable," Castro told 548 members of the National Assembly in its one-day, semiannual meeting.
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