2018 in Cuba
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Events in the year 2018 in Cuba.
Incumbents
[edit | edit source]- First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro
- President: Raúl Castro → Miguel Díaz-Canel
Events
[edit | edit source]- 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. Raúl Castro remained the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party socialist state.[1]
- 21 April – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is the first foreign leader to meet with President Miguel Díaz-Canel.[2]
- 18 May – Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes shortly after takeoff from the José Martí International Airport, killing all but one of the 113 people on board.[3]
Deaths
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- 12 January – Rudy Árias, baseball player (b. 1931).[4]
- 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.
- 23 May – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban terrorist (b. 1928)
- 18 July – Pedro Pérez, triple jumper (b. 1952).[5]
References
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- ^ Muere el triplista Pedro Pérez Dueñas, primer recordista mundial cubano (in Spanish)
