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Cuba's new president Miguel Diaz-Canel (left) and former president Raul Castro (right)
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MIGUEL Diaz Canel was elected as the new president of Cuba today in an historic moment which brought an end to the Castro era.
Outgoing president Raul Castro confirmed to Mr Diaz Canel that “from this moment on you are the new president of this country” after the vote in Cuba’s National Assembly.
Mr Diaz Canel said he assumed the role “with the conviction that all we revolutionaries will be faithful to Fidel and Raul.”
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ISAAC SANEY points to the global stakes involved in defending the Cuban revolution against imperialism and calls for resistance
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
The recent speech by Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel is an affirmation of Amilcar Cabral’s revolutionary principle, writes ISAAC SANEY