2019 in Cuba

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Events in the year 2019 in Cuba.

Incumbents

• First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro
  • Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: José Ramón Machado Ventura
• President: Miguel Díaz-Canel
  • First Vice President: Salvador Valdés Mesa
• Prime Minister: Manuel Marrero Cruz

Events

January

• January 2 – The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution was celebrated in the capital of Havana.^[1]
• January 27 – A rare EF4 tornado makes landfall in Havana, killing at least three and causing severe damage.^[2]

February

• February 24 – The 2019 Cuban constitutional referendum took place.^[3]

March

• March 24–27 – President Díaz-Canel hosted the Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall to the capital as the first members of the British royal family to visit the island.^[4][5]

April

• April 10 – The new Constitution of Cuba came into force.

December

• December 21 – Manuel Marrero Cruz assumes office as the 19th Prime Minister of Cuba, becoming the first person to hold the office after the post was reestablished by the 2019 Constitution.^[6]

Deaths

• January 6 – José Ramón Fernández, vice president of the Council of Ministers (b. 1923)
• January 14 – Bernardo Benes, Jewish civic leader (b. 1934)
• February 20 – Chelo Alonso, actress (b. 1933)
• July 20 – Roberto Fernández Retamar, poet (b. 1930)
• July 26 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, cardinal (b. 1936)^[7]
• April 21 – Amelia Vargas, actress and dancer (b. 1928)
• August 26 – Isabel Toledo, Cuban-American fashion designer (b. 1960)
• September 9 – Dulce García, Olympic javelin thrower (b. 1968)
• October 17 – Alicia Alonso, ballerina (b. 1920)
• November 20 – Bertha Díaz, Olympic sprinter (b. 1936)
• December 5 – Faure Chomón, politician (b. 1929)
• December 29 – Harry Villegas, communist revolutionary (b. 1940)

References

1. "Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro's communist revolution". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
2. "Cuba tornado: Three killed and more than 170 injured in Havana as deadly cyclone hits capital". The Independent. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
3. Legon, Elio Delgado (2018-07-23). "Cuba's Reformed Constitution, a Democratic and Participatory Process". Havana Times. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
4. "Charles and Camilla make history in Cuba". BBC News. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
5. "prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=264156&SEO=carlos-de-gales-y-camila-de-cornualles-rinden-homenaje-a-jose-marti". prensa-latina.cu (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-08.
6. "Cuba names tourism minister to be first PM since 1976". AP NEWS. 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
7. Muere líder de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba, cardenal Ortega, clave en acercamiento con EEUU Archived 2019-07-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)