Coinciding with the anniversary of the islandwide July 11 uprising in 2021 on Friday, the United States sanctioned Cuba’s ...

The 'Ballerina' actress was previously seen stepping out with Manuel Anido Cuesta, the stepson of Cuba's president Miguel ...

Havana, July 19 (RHC / ACN)-- Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of ...

At 57, Miguel Diaz-Canel comes from a new generation of Cuban politicians born after the 1959 Cuban revolution. An engineer, he lacks the military background of most of Cuba’s leadership but has ...

Miguel Díaz-Canel was officially named as the new leader of Cuba on Thursday, one day after a secret vote in the country’s National Assembly.

On April 19, for the first time in almost 60 years, Cuba likely will have a leader whose last name is not Castro. Raul Castro, who took over as leader in 2008 after his brother Fidel became too ...

Newly elected Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (L) reacts as former Cuban President Raul Castro (R) raises his hand during the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, on Thu., April 19, 2018.

HAVANA – The man tapped as the likely heir-apparent to Raul Castro is largely unknown off the island, but his rise to the country's No. 2 job was anything but meteoric. Miguel Diaz-Canel has ...

Cuba leader Miguel Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta, at a ceremony in Argentina in 2019. AFP Despite his long history in Cuban governance, Díaz-Canel was not widely known on the international ...

Miguel Díaz-Canel was chosen Thursday as Cuba's new president. The question is whether he will emerge from the shadow of Raúl Castro, who will remain as Communist Party chief.

Raúl Castro stepped down in observance of the two-term limit for senior government and party officials that he himself mandated in 2011.