Miguel Díaz-Canel is present the President of Cuba since 19 April 2018.
Preceeded by: Raúl Castro.
Date of Birth: 20 April 1960.
Birth Place: Placetas, Villa Clara Province, Cuba.
Party: Communist Party of Cuba.
Family: Lis Cuesta(Spouse), 2 Children.
About: Daz-Canel’s parents are Ada Bermdez, a schoolteacher, and Miguel Daz-Canel, a mechanical plant worker in Santa Clara, Cuba. He is of direct paternal Spanish (Asturian) descent; his great-grandfather Ramón Daz-Canel left Castropol, Asturias (Spain) for Havana in the late 19th century.
He graduated from the Central University of Las Villas in 1982 as an electronics engineer and thereupon joined the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. Beginning in April 1985, he taught engineering at his alma mater. In 1987, he completed an international mission in Nicaragua as First Secretary of the Young Communist League of Villa Clara.
