Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (born April 20, 1960, in Placetas, Villa Clara, Cuba) is a Cuban politician and university professor who has served as the President of the Republic of Cuba since October 10, 2019
He has been a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba since 1997 and served as Minister of Higher Education from 2009 to 2012, before being promoted to the position of Vice President of the Council of Ministers in 2012. A year later, on February 24, 2013, he was elected first vice president of the Council, making him the second in the line of succession for Cuba’s executive power.
Formado en 1982 como ingeniero eléctrico, cuando se unió a las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba, donde permaneció hasta 1985. A partir de abril de ese año, fue profesor en la Universidad "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas. En 1987, completó una misión internacional en Nicaragua como primer secretario de "La Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas (UJC)" Villa Clara. En los últimos años de la década de 1980 y primeros de 1990 fue miembro del comité nacional de la UJC y segundo secretario bajo la primera secretaría de Roberto Robaina.
In 1993, he began working at the Communist Party of Cuba, and a year later he was elected as the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party in the province of Villa Clara. In 2003, he was elected to the same position in the province of Holguín.
He was appointed Minister of Higher Education by Raúl Castro in May 2009, a position he held until March 22, 2012, when he became Vice President of the Council of Ministers to oversee the areas of science, education, culture, and sports.
Díaz-Canel has two children from a previous marriage and is married to Lis Cuesta Peraza, a graduate of the Holguín Pedagogical Institute.
