2018 in Cuba
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Events in the year 2018 in Cuba.
Incumbents
- First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro
- President: Raúl Castro → Miguel Díaz-Canel
Events
- 11 March – the 2018 Cuban parliamentary election is held.
- 19 April – Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of the Council of State, marking the first time since 1959 that neither Castro brother is leading Cuba.
- 21 April – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is the first foreign leader to meet with President Miguel Díaz-Canel.[1]
Deaths
- 12 January – Rudy Árias, baseball player (b. 1931).[2]
- 1 February – Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, nuclear physicist and government official (b. 1949)
- 4 March – José Triana, 87, Cuban poet.
- 16 March – Milán Matos, 68, Cuban long jumper.
- 18 July – Pedro Pérez, triple jumper (b. 1952).[3]
References
- ^ "Underlining alliance, Venezuela's Maduro visits new Cuban leader". 21 April 2018.
- ^ "Rudy Arias, member of the 1959 Go-Go White Sox, dies at 86". www.baseballhappenings.net. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ Muere el triplista Pedro Pérez Dueñas, primer recordista mundial cubano Template:Es icon
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