Cuba’s Communist Party announced today that President Miguel Diaz-Canel has replaced Raul Castro as leader of the Communist Party, signaling the end of the Castro brothers’ 60-year rule.
Cuba’s ruling Communist Party today elected Diaz-Canel to replace Raul Castro as first secretary of Cuba’s most powerful Communist Party on the last day of its national congress, the official Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported.
The Cuban Communist Party’s national congress approved the transfer of power in a ceremonial manner, with officials tweeting, “Diaz-Canet was elected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.”
This marks the end of the Castro brothers’ 60-year reign, handing over power to a younger leadership. Raul Castro, who is 89 years old, will now enter retirement.
Raul Castro and his brother Fidel Castro, who led the Cuban leftist revolution in 1959, passed away in 2016.
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