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Lis Cuesta Peraza de Díaz-Canel (born 28 March 1971) is a Cuban politician and former tourism executive who is the current First Lady of Cuba since 2018 as the second wife [1] of Miguel Díaz-Canel, the First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba.
First Lady of Cuba (Spanish: Primera Dama de Cuba) is de facto title of the wife of the President of the Republic of Cuba. [1] The current first lady of Cuba is Lis Cuesta Peraza, the second wife of President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who is also the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the Cuban government.
On 18 April 2018, Díaz-Canel was announced as the only candidate to succeed Castro as president. [8] He was formally elected by the National Assembly on 19 April [8] and sworn in on the same day. [14] 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. [9]
His presence will generate protests by Cuban exiles and human rights activists.
Diaz-Canel also called on Biden to reverse Trump's designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a move that has limited its ability to engage in international financial transactions.
The brief statement, broadcast on Cuba's midday newscast, was the first official reaction to Trump's election by the island's government. Cuban leader Diaz-Canel plays down impact of Trump's ...
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First Secretary. Miguel Díaz-Canel; Second Secretary. José Ramón Machado Ventura; Politburo ... Miguel Díaz-Canel (born 1960) 19 April 2018: 10 October 2019: 1 ...