Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as Cuba's president

HAVANA (AP) — A 57-year-old bureaucrat replaced Raul Castro as the president of Cuba on Thursday, launching a new political era as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure the long-term survival of one of the world's last communist states.The National Assembly announced that Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez had been approved as the sole candidate for president.The 86-year-old Castro will remain head of the Communist Party, which is designated by the constitution