This is the first time the U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Díaz-Canel, Cuba's handpicked president and head of the Communist Party, a civilian figure who was spared in several rounds of ...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel remembered today, on the Day of the Martyrs of the Cuban Revolution, all those who gave ...

Revolutionary leader Raúl Castro, 94, accompanied by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, arrived at Ciego de Avila's Plaza ...

Díaz-Canel, 57, has a long history in Cuba politics. Before his current role, he was the minister of higher education. Miguel Diaz-Canel arrives at the European Union headquarters in Brussels in ...

Ever since Díaz-Canel was named first vice president in 2013, Cubans and Cuba watchers have scrambled to find out more about the enigmatic heir apparent, combing through his track record as party ...

Miguel Diaz-Canel The latest on Miguel Díaz-Canel. First elected president of Cuba in 2019, he is the first leader of Cuba to not be related to Fidel Castro.

On Monday, Cuba's Communist Party congress chose Miguel Díaz-Canel to be its leader, as expected. He has already held the title of president since 2018.

Díaz-Canel is considered a top contender for that post when he steps down. Cuba leader Miguel Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta, at a ceremony in Argentina in 2019. AFP ...

Pope Francis welcomed the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, first secretary of the Communist Party who was reelected president last April 19, to the Vatican on June 20.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel discussed diplomacy on a Monday phone call. Above, Putin (right) and Díaz-Canel attend a news conference at the Grand ...

In 2016, Raúl Castro, left, talks with Miguel Díaz-Canel, now Cuba’s president, during the annual session of the Cuban Parliament in Havana. Ismael Francisco Getty Images ...

Cuba has a new president — and for the first time in six decades his last name is not Castro. Who is Miguel Díaz-Canel, the man who inherits a Cuba born of Fidel’s 1959 revolution?