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April 19, 2021 SOURCE: Miami Herald – Miguel Díaz-Canel, the loyalist groomed to succeed Raúl Castro, on Monday was formally named chief of Cuba’s Communist Party, giving him unprecedented civilian control of a nation grappling with a shattered economy, food shortages and a citizenry increasingly emboldened to criticize the government. The long-expected consolidation of power came after Castro, the former president and revolutionary figure who helped his brother cement a communist regime in Cuba officially announced his retirement at age 89. Cuba’s Communist Party announced on Twitter that Díaz-Canel, the nation’s president, had been chosen as the party’s new first secretary. The appointment comes on the last day of the Communist Party’s Eighth Congress, a carefully scripted event in Havana meant to herald the arrival of a new generation of leaders as the last of the old guard rebels departs amid the island’s worst economic crisis in decades.

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