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Miguel Díaz-Canel
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Miguel Díaz-Canel

b. 1960

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021

Born
20 Apr 1960 · Placetas
Part ofCuba1762 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 76 years
  1. 20 Apr 1960BornBorn in Placetas
  2. 2009 – 2012RoleMinister of Higher Education of Cuba
  3. 2013 – 2018RoleDeputy Prime Minister of Cuba
  4. 2013 – 2018RoleVice-President of Cuba
  5. 2018RolePresident of Cuba
  6. 2018 – 2019RolePrime Minister of Cuba
  7. 2018AwardOrder of Hồ Chí Minh
  8. 2018AwardOrder of the Liberator
  9. 2019AwardOrder of Agostinho Neto
  10. 2021RoleFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
  11. 2023AwardGrand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry
  12. 2023AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle
  13. 2023AwardOrder of the Welwitschia

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1960 – today).

  1. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  5. 1968Prague Spring
  6. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  7. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  8. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  11. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  12. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  13. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  14. 1985Schengen Agreement
  15. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  16. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  17. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  19. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  21. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  22. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  23. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  24. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  25. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  26. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  27. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  28. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  29. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  30. 20112011 Norway attacks
  31. 2011Libyan civil war
  32. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  33. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  34. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  35. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  36. 2015Paris Agreement
  37. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  39. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  40. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war

Biography

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (Latin American Spanish: [miˈɣel ˈdi.as kaˈnel]; born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician and engineer who has served as the 8th first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and the leader of Cuba since 2021. In 2019 he became the 17th president of Cuba and was president of the Council of State from 2018 until 2019.

Díaz-Canel succeeded the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, becoming Cuba's first leader who was not a Castro since the Cuban Revolution ended in 1959, and its first head of state since 1976 not from the Castro family. He has been a member of the Cuban Politburo since 2003. He served as Minister of Higher Education from 2009 until 2012, when he was promoted to Vice President of the Council of Ministers. In 2013, he was elected as First Vice President of the Council of State.

In 2018, Díaz-Canel succeeded Raúl Castro as President of the Council. After a new constitution was enacted, he assumed the recreated office of President of Cuba. On 19 April 2021, he was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba following Raúl Castro's exit from the role.

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