Cuba Officially Announces Two Black Women as New Vice-presidents

Style Magazine Newswire | 4/27/2018, 2:08 p.m.
Cuba is being hailed as becoming more progressive as the country takes leaps toward diversity and moves away from its …
in Inés María Chapman and Beatriz Jhonson

Source: The Grio

Cuba is being hailed as becoming more progressive as the country takes leaps toward diversity and moves away from its white dominated legacy. Cuba now has more Black leadership with two Black women vice-presidents in Inés María Chapman and Beatriz Jhonson. The women will take up residence and signal a major changing of the guards by taking on these leadership positions, reports the New York Times. The women join first vice president Salvador Valdes Mesa in the high-powered position. Cuba’s newly appointed President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermudez took office last week. This is a major shake-up and the first time Cuba is seeing a new President outside of Fidel Castro family leadership. Castro’s 86-year-old brother, Raul will continue as head of the Communist Party, according to TIME. Castro acknowledged that although the women are Afro-Cuban, they were elected to positions of power, not only because of their ethnicity, but also because of what they bring to the table noting their virtues and qualities.

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