Miguel Díaz-Canel: Quick Facts

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Born	April 20, 1960 (age 66) • Cuba
Title / Office	president (2018-), Cuba
Political Affiliation	Communist Party of Cuba

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Miguel Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro

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Fidel Castro stands at a row of microphones, wearing a military jacket and looking at the camera during his 1959 visit to Washington, DC.

Fidel Castro

political leader of Cuba

Raúl Castro, 2013

Raúl Castro

head of state of Cuba

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Calixto García Iñiguez

Cuban revolutionary leader

Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista

Cuban dictator

Bayamo

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

Cuban revolutionary

Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez smiles in a white and blue spacesuit with mission patches, posing against a plain blue background.

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Cuban pilot and cosmonaut

Prío Socarrás, Carlos

Carlos Prío Socarrás

president of Cuba

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Máximo Gómez y Báez

Cuban revolutionary commander

Tomás Estrada Palma, c. 1902

Tomás Estrada Palma

president of Cuba

Gerardo Machado y Morales

Gerardo Machado y Morales

Cuban dictator

Bustamante y Sirvén

Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirvén

Cuban politician

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Vilma Espín Guillois

Cuban revolutionary and women’s rights activist

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Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado

Cuban revolutionary and politician

Che Guevara

Che Guevara

Argentine-Cuban revolutionary

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Bernardo de Gálvez

Spanish colonial administrator

Meyer Lansky

Meyer Lansky

American gangster

Painting depicting Spanish conquistador Diego Velazquez de Cuellar handing command to Hernan Cortes near ships, with crew and indigenous laborers in the background.

Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar

Spanish conquistador

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Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, marquis de Tenerife

Spanish general

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

American politician

Tania Bruguera: The Burden of Guilt

Tania Bruguera

Cuban performance artist