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Miguel Díaz-Canel

President of Cuba, 2019 to present (First Secretary of the Communist Party since 2021)

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An engineer and party official who succeeded Raúl Castro, becoming the first Cuban leader since the revolution who is not a Castro, at a time of severe economic crisis.

Miguel Díaz-Canel sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly state-led on economy and leaning secular on religion. The profile is close to the middle on technology and interventionism.

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Where Miguel Díaz-Canel sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Miguel Díaz-Canel

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Political views closest to Miguel Díaz-Canel

Pan-ArabismSeeks the unity of Arab peoples across state borders and independence from foreign…89%State capitalismUses a strong state to steer a market economy toward rapid growth, often limiting…88%KemalismTurkey's founding ideology of secular, nationalist and state-led modernization.87%Pan-AfricanismSeeks solidarity and unity among African peoples and states.86%

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