Cuba Appoints Miguel Diaz-Canel as Prime Minister

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel named tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as the country’s first Prime Minister in decades, under a new constitution that seeks to decentralize former leader Fidel Castro’s job.

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  • Castro was Prime Minister until 1976 when the post was abolished. The iconic revolutionary became head of the Communist Party and president of the Council of State and Council of Ministers.
  • Manuel Marrero Cruz, 56, is a former functionary of the military-run Gaviota tourism corporation whose hotels have been sanctioned by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
  • Marrero, tourism minister for 15 years, presided over the ....

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