Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel was all set to clinch a second five-year term via a parliamentary vote today as the sole candidate in a country where political opposition is illegal.
Diaz-Canel took over the reins in 2018 as Cuba’s first civilian leader after nearly 60 years of Castro brother hegemony, vowing to “always defend the party” even as he set out in pursuit of cautious economic liberalisation.