Miguel Diaz-Canel, 57-year-old first vice president, is expected to be named by the national assembly on Thursday as the successor to 86-year-old Raul Castro, making him the first leader since Cuba’s 1959 revolution to be born after it.
Cuba has formally announced Miguel Diaz-Canel as the country’s new president. The 57-year-old man of two was elected president of Cuba on April 19 after Raul Castro, who led the country for 10 years, stepped down. Political campaigning is outlawed in Cuba, so little is known about Diaz-Canel’s
Castro during a visit to the United States in 1959. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba; In office June 24, 1961 – …
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Apr 17, 2018 · As Cuba’s president for the past decade, Raul Castro has allowed the Caribbean island nation to open to the world and to limited free market reforms, but always with the aim of maintaining the revolution that he and older man Fidel Castro championed their whole lives. Raul Castro lifted
Apr 18, 2018 · Havana, Cuba (CNN)For the first time in the lives of most Cubans, a man not named Castro will lead the Communist-run island nation. Cuba’s National Assembly announced Thursday that First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, 57, will replace Raul Castro as the head of the Cuban government. Castro
Cuba (/ ˈ k juː b ə /; Spanish pronunciation: ), officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba (help · info)), is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several archipelagos.
Apr 19, 2018 · For the White House, the conundrum of Cuba began in 1959, when a six-year revolution led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara finally convinced Cuba’s president and despotic ruler Fulgencio Batista it was time to pack a bag and flee. Decade after decade the Castro mans — Fidel and Raul — held
Apr 19, 2018 · Raul Castro expects Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, 57, to serve two five-year terms as president, eventually take Castro’s place as head of Communist Party
