Miguel Diaz Canel
December 19, 2025 from Havana
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, closed the Sixth Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) of its Tenth Legislature, held at the Convention Palace in Havana.
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illustration by Ylli Haruni
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