Tag: Raul Castro
Miguel Diaz-Canel, 57, Selected As Next Cuban President
Cuba on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as sole candidate to succeed Raul Castro as president of Cuba, the centerpiece of an effort to ensure that the country’s single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.
Raul Castro Leaves Cuba With New Freedoms, Deep Problems
When Castro steps down Thursday after two terms as president he will leave his successor a host of problems that are deeper than on the day his brother Fidel formally handed over power.
