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Miguel Diaz-Canel

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Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

(American Spanish: [miˈɣel ˈdi.as kaˈnel]; born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician who has been First Vice President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers since 2013. He has been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2003, and he served as Minister of Higher Education from 2009 to 2012; he was promoted to the post of Vice President of the Council of Ministers (deputy Prime Minister) in 2012. A year later, on 24 February 2013, he was elected as First Vice President of the Council of State.

He is expected to succeed Raul Castro as President of Cuba on 19 April 2018.

Early life and education

Díaz Canel was born in the city of Placetas in Villa Clara on 20 April, 1960 to Aída Bermúdez and Miguel Díaz-Canel a mechanical plant worker in Santa Clara.

He graduated from Central University of Las Villas in 1982 as an electronics engineer, at which time he joined the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. Beginning in April 1985 he taught at his alma mater. In 1987 he completed an international mission in Nicaragua as First Secretary of the Young Communist League of Villa Clara.

In 1993 he started work with the Communist Party of Cuba and a year later was elected First Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Villa Clara Province. In 2003 he was elected to the same position in Holguín Province. He was also promoted to the Politburo in 2003.

He was appointed Minister of Higher Education in May 2009, a position from which he was released on 22 March 2012 when he became Vice President of the Council of Ministers. He is the first person born after the 1959 Cuban revolution to reach this position.

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