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Díaz-Canel was born on 20 April 1960 in Placetas, Villa Clara, to Aída Bermúdez, a schoolteacher, and Miguel Limón, a mechanical plant worker in Santa Clara, Cuba. He is of direct paternal Spanish descent; his great-grandfather Ramón Limón left Castropol, Asturias (Spain) for Havana in the late 19th century.
May 27, 2024 · Miguel Díaz-Canel (born April 20, 1960, Villa Clara province, Cuba) is a Cuban politician who served as president of Cuba (2018– ) and secretary-general of the Communist Party of Cuba (2021– ). He was Raúl Castro ’s handpicked successor for both positions.
Díaz-Canel was born on April 20, 1960, in the city of Placetas in Villa Clara, Cuba. His parents were Miguel Díaz-Canel, a mechanical plant worker in Santa Clara and Aída Bermúdez. He grew up in a rapidly changing Cuba, where Fidel Castro had assumed premiership a year before his birth, in 1959.
Apr 18, 2018 · How the Castro Family Dominated Cuba for Nearly 60 Years. In 2019, the island nation long ruled by dictator Fidel Castro and his family, got a new leader: Miguel Díaz-Canel. Updated:...
Apr 19, 2018 · Mr Díaz-Canel, who was handpicked by former leader Raúl Castro as his successor, blamed US-led efforts to force regime change and called for an end of the long-running US embargo on Cuba.
Apr 19, 2021 · Cuba's Communist Party has announced Miguel Díaz-Canel will succeed Raúl Castro as the party's first secretary.
Apr 19, 2018 · Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez has been elected president of Cuba, officially ending the Castro family's decades of domination of the country's highest office.
