Cuba names first Prime Minister since 1976

YAMIL LAGE / AFP

Cuba has appointed the country's first Prime Minister in more than 40 years.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel handed the role to tourism minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.

He has been appointed for a five-year term and the nomination was quickly ratified by the parliament.

The post of Prime Minister was scrapped back in 1976 by then-leader Fidel Castro.

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