title: 2019 in Cuba
text: # 2019 in Cuba
  
  Events in the year 2019 in Cuba.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro
     * Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: José Ramón Machado Ventura
  * President: Miguel Díaz-Canel
     * First Vice President: Salvador Valdés Mesa
  * Prime Minister: Manuel Marrero Cruz
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 2 – The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution was celebrated in the capital of Havana.
  * January 27 – A rare EF4 tornado makes landfall in Havana, killing at least three and causing severe damage.
  
  ### February
  
  * February 24 – The 2019 Cuban constitutional referendum took place.
  
  ### March
  
  * March 24–27 – President Díaz-Canel hosted the Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall to the capital as the first members of the British royal family to visit the island.
  
  ### April
  
  * April 10 – The new Constitution of Cuba came into force.
  
  ### December
  
  * December 21 – Manuel Marrero Cruz assumes office as the 19th Prime Minister of Cuba, becoming the first person to hold the office after the post was reestablished by the 2019 Constitution.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * July 26 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)
  