Events in the year 2020 in

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

Incumbents

* First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba:

Raúl Castro Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (; ; born 3 June 1931) is a retired Cuban politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, succeedi ...

** Second Secretary:

José Ramón Machado Ventura José Ramón Machado Ventura, M.D. (born 26 October 1930) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2008 to 2013. With the election of Raúl Castro as President of Cuba on 24 Feb ...

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

of the Council of State:

Miguel Díaz-Canel Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel y Bermúdez (; born 20 April 1960) also known as MADCB, is a politician and engineer who is the third first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. Díaz-Canel succeeds the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, making ...

** First Vice President:

Salvador Valdés Mesa Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa (born 13 June 1945) is a Cuban politicianDamien CaveRaúl Castro Says His Current Term as President of Cuba Will Be His Last ''The New York Times'', 24 February 2013 and former trade union leader. He is the First Vi ...

Events

* 11 March – The first three cases of COVID-19 in Cuba were confirmed, all of whom were Italian tourists. * 16 March – The cruise ship MS ''Braemar'', with over 1,000 passengers and crew on board, is given permission to berth in Cuba after being rejected by

The Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...

. At least five passengers tested positive for COVID-19. British citizens were able to take flights home after both governments reached an agreement on their repatriation. *30 July – The government announces economic reforms giving more freedom to private businesses. *27 August – The governor of

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

announces a curfew and travel ban to curb the spread of COVID-19. *1 September **Cuba establishes a curfew and other strict measures to deal with the spread of the virus. **U.S. President

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

orders Marriott Hotels & Resorts to close its operations in Cuba. *14 September – With the addition of 12 health workers in

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

, Cuba has sent 4,000 health workers to 40 countries during the pandemic.

Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human r ...

and the government of the United States have complained because the workers involved have received only a small part of the money paid by the host countries; Cuba sees this as a type of tax to finance its universal health care. Cuba reports 4,684 cases and 108 deaths related to the virus. *November –

Hurricane Eta Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic Saffir-Simpson scale, Category 4 hurricane that devastated parts of Central America in early November 2020. The record-tying twenty-eighth Tropical cyclone naming, named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and s ...

*10 December – President Miguel Diaz-Canel says Cuba will eliminate its

dual exchange rate In economics, a dual exchange rate is the occurrence of two different values of a currency for different sets of monetary transactions. One of the most common types consists of a government setting one exchange rate for specific transactions invol ...

in January and have a fixed exchange rate of 24 pesos/US dollar. This is the first devaluation since 1959.

Deaths

*25 August –

Pedro de Oraá Pedro de Oraá (1931 – 25 August 2020) was a Cuban contemporary visual artist, best known for his contributions to the Cuban abstract movement of Concretism in the 1950s and his involvement in the group Los Once (the eleven) in 1956 and the co-fo ...

, painter (b. 1931). *2 September – Paco Prats, 76, animation producer. *26 September – José Antonio Arbesú, 80, diplomat; cancer. *16 October –

Tomás Herrera Martínez Tomás Herrera Martinez (21 December 1950 – 18 October 2020) was a basketball player from Cuba, who won the bronze medal with the men's Cuba national basketball team, national team at the Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summ ...

, 69, basketball player, Olympic bronze medallist (

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

). *1 November

Julio Bécquer Julio Bécquer Villegas (December 20, 1931 – November 1, 2020) was an Cuban-born American professional baseball player, a first baseman who played in 488 games over seven seasons (1955; 1957–61; 1963) for the Washington Senators / Minnesot ...

, 88, baseball player ( Washington Senators, Los Angeles Angels,

Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. The team is named after the Twin Cities area w ...

). *3 November –

Taymi Chappé Taymi Chappé Valladares (11 September 1968 – 3 November 2020) was a Cuban-Spanish fencer. She competed in the women's individual épée event at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olymp ...

, 52, Cuban-Spanish Olympic fencer (

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

). *7 November –

Cándido Camero Cándido Camero Guerra (22 April 19217 November 2020), known simply as Cándido, was a Cuban conga and bongo player. He is considered a pioneer of Afro-Cuban jazz and an innovator in conga drumming. He was responsible for the development of tun ...

, 99, jazz percussionist. *16 November – Dairon Blanco, 28, footballer ( Las Tunas, national team); traffic collision. *18 November – , 56, actress ('' The Companion''); drowned. *24 November –

Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo (1943 – 24 November 2020) was a Cuban politician who served as Minister of the Interior from January 2017 until his death. Life and career Gandarilla Bermejo was born in 1943 in Matanzas Province, Cuba. Gand ...

, 77, vice admiral,

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

(since 2017).Falleció el Vicealmirante Julio Cesar Gandarilla Bermejo

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