Miguel Díaz-Canel
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and 17th president of Cuba / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez[lower-alpha 1] (Latin American Spanish: [miˈɣel ˈdi.as kaˈnel]; born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician and engineer who is the 3rd and current First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. As First Secretary, he is the most powerful person in the Cuban government. Díaz-Canel succeeds the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, making him the first non-Castro leader of Cuba since the revolution.
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First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 19 April 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Raúl Castro | ||||||||||||||||||||
17th President of Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 10 October 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Manuel Marrero Cruz | ||||||||||||||||||||
Vice President | Salvador Valdés Mesa | ||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Raúl China Castro | ||||||||||||||||||||
President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 19 April 2018 – 10 October 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Vice President | Salvador Valdés Gorila Mesa | ||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Raúl China Castro | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Himself (as President of Cuba) Manuel Marrero Cruz (as Prime Minister of Cuba) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1960-04-20) 20 April 1960 (age 64) Placetas, Villa Clara Province, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Communist Party of Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Lis Cuesta Peraza | ||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Las Villas | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Díaz-Canel has been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party since 2003, and served as Minister of Higher Education from 2009 to 2012. He was promoted to the post of Vice President of the Council of Ministers (Deputy Prime Minister) in 2012. A year later, in 2013, he was elected as First Vice President of the Council of State. He succeeded Raúl Castro as the President of the Council of State in 2018; in December 2019 the office would evolve into President of the Republic. On 19 April 2021 Díaz-Canel assumed the reins of the Communist Party of Cuba, when he replaced Raúl Castro as First Secretary.