Posted on 04/19/2018 10:04:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Miguel Díaz-Canel has been sworn in as Cuba's new president, replacing Raúl Castro who took over from his ailing brother Fidel in 2006.
It is the first time since the revolution in 1959 that a Castro is not at the helm of the government.
Mr Díaz-Canel had been serving as first vice-president for the past five years.
Even though Mr Díaz-Canel was born after the revolution, he is a staunch ally of Raúl Castro and is not expected to make any radical changes.
'The Revolution continues its course'
He was elected by the members of the National Assembly, all 605 of whom were voted in in March after standing unopposed.
Mr Castro is expected to continue wielding considerable political influence in his role as the leader of Cuba's ruling Communist Party.
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59 years and the Revolution still isn’t finished?
These criminal bastards have run Cuba to the ground for 60 years while they live as kings, and yet, some of our politicians support these gangland style murdering scum.
OK NK might be more a pure theocracy.
Let’s see: Fidel Castro; Raul Castro; Diaz-Canel
Democrat Party: Ted Kennedy; Harry Reid; Chuck Schumer; Nancy Pelosi; Debbie Wasserman Schulz; Tom Perez
What’s the difference? Oh, sorry. The Democrats are opposed to our “Wall” whereas they supported Castro and Che killing 15,000+ Cuban patriots at their Wall, when Che wasn’t first torturing prisoners using an electric hand drill (I can see where Saddam and his boys, and then ISIS, got that idea).
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