Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Jose Marti monument in Havana, Cuba April 21, 2018. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
HAVANA (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became on Saturday the first foreign leader to meet with Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canel since he became president of the communist-run island this week, underscoring the importance of the Venezuelan-Cuban alliance.
Diaz-Canel, 58, was sworn in on Thursday as president to succeed his mentor Raul Castro, 86, in a transition designed to continue rather than change the one-party socialist system, one of the last in the world.
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