Cuban lawmakers vote on Castro successor

By Frank Jack Daniel and Sarah Marsh
Updated April 19 2018 - 10:09am, first published 10:04am
Miguel Diaz-Canel (right) has been nominated to succeed Raul Castro as president of Cuba.
Miguel Diaz-Canel (right) has been nominated to succeed Raul Castro as president of Cuba.

Cuba's Raul Castro is just hours away from retiring as president, with his vice president Miguel Diaz-Canel set to replace him in a shift that will usher in the island's first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution.

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