 Cuba's ruling pro-communist party has elected President Miguel Díaz-Canal to succeed Raul Castro as the party's first secretary. It's the most powerful position in the country. The secession marks the end of six decades of rule by brothers Fidel and Raul Castro, who led Cuba's leftist 1959 revolution. The mantle now passes to a younger generation. Díaz-Canal, who was born after the revolution and is aged 60, already succeeded Castro as president in 2018 and had been widely expected to also take the role of first party secretary. Díaz-Canal was party chief in two provinces before joining the national government as education minister in 2008 and then became Castro's right-hand man in 2013. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.