Salvador Valdés Mesa

Salvador Valdés Mesa
Vice President of Cuba
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 October 2019
PresidentMiguel Díaz-Canel
Preceded byRafael Guas Inclán (1959)
First Vice President of the Council of State
In office
19 April 2018 – 10 October 2019
PresidentMiguel Díaz-Canel
Preceded byMiguel Díaz-Canel
Succeeded byPost abolished
Vice President of the Council of State
In office
24 February 2013 – 19 April 2018
PresidentRaúl Castro
Preceded byEsteban Lazo Hernández
Succeeded byBeatriz Jonson Urrutia
Minister of Labor and Social Security
In office
2 March 1995 – 28 December 1999
PresidentFidel Castro
Preceded byFrancisco Linares Calvo
Succeeded byAlfredo Morales Cartaya
Personal details
Born (1945-06-13) 13 June 1945 (age 79)
Amancio Rodríguez, Cuba
Political party26th of July Movement (1961–1965)
Communist Party of Cuba (1965–present)
SpouseJulia Piloto Saborit

Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa[a] (born 13 June 1945) is a Cuban politician[1][2] and former trade union leader. He is the First Vice President of Cuba since April 2018 and is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba.[citation needed] He was elected to succeed Miguel Díaz-Canel as First Vice President of Cuba on 19 April 2018.[1][3]

Biography

Salvador Valdés Mesa with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, 28 February 2023

Salvador Valdés was part of the Association of Young Rebels since 1961, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. He was a leader of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba and the Communist Party of Cuba. He served as Minister of Labor and Social Security between 1995 and 1999, when he was elected first secretary of the PCC in the province of Camagüey. He has been a deputy of the National Assembly of People's Power since 1993, he is a member of the Political Council of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and a member of the Council of State (first for Santa Cruz del Sur, then Güines starting in the 9th legislature) where he holds one of the five Vice Presidencies.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Valdés and the second or maternal family name is Mesa.

References

  1. ^ a b Damien Cave, Raúl Castro Says His Current Term as President of Cuba Will Be His Last Archived 2020-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, 24 February 2013
  2. ^ Jimenez, Marguerite (28 March 2018). "Cuba After the Castros". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  3. ^ "End of the Castro era: Who's the man likely to be Cuba's next president?". NBC News. Archived from the original on 19 April 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Diputados elegidos en la VIII Legislatura – Camagüey". Parlamento Cubano. 30 June 2016. Archived from the original on 25 April 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Salvador Valdés Mesa | Cubadebate". Cubadebate (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
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