Cuba's new leader to defend Castro legacy

By Sarah Marsh and Frank Jack Daniel
Updated April 20 2018 - 2:52am, first published 2:47am
Cuba's new president plans no sweeping changes as he vows to follow the Castro revolutionary legacy.
Cuba's new president plans no sweeping changes as he vows to follow the Castro revolutionary legacy.

Cuba's new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has begun his term with a promise to defend the socialist revolution led by the Castro brothers since 1959, giving a strident speech that also emphasised the need to modernise the island's economy.

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