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Cuba after the Castro Era
Lesson Outline
Today, Cuba is governed by Miguel Díaz-Canel. He is the first president to not be a Castro family member since Osvaldo Dorticós in 1976 and the first leader of the government who is not a Castro since José Miró Cardona in 1959. He succeeded Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba on April 19, 2021, marking the end of Castro leadership in Cuba. On April 18, 2018, Díaz-Canel was selected as the only candidate to succeed Castro as president. He was little-known to the public before becoming president. He is the first president born after the 1959 Cuban Revolution and the first since 1976 not to be a member of the Castro family. In his first multinational political trip since becoming president, Díaz-Canel traveled in November 2018 to visit all of Cuba's Eurasian allies. Diplomatic meetings were held in Russia, North Korea, China, Vietnam, and Laos. Brief stopovers in the United Kingdom and France also included meetings with British parliamentarians and French leaders. In March 2019, Díaz-Canel and his wife hosted Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in Havana as the first British royals to visit the island. Very little is known about his personal life.
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60
Minutes Student Attended
60
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1.00
Hours Attended
1.00
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