Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is getting a chance to interact with his Caribbean counterparts and we in the region are also having an opportunity to meet the Cuban leader who has been a relatively unknown figure.Díaz-Canel has started a regional tour that has taken him across the Eastern Caribbean with a well-publicised and high-profile stop in Barbados, as we celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations with the largest Caribbean state.After so many decades of associating Cuba with the Castro name, it made sense for the relatively new Cuban leader to get to know some of his strongest allies.Earlier this year, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves invested much political capital in a failed effort to have the United States of America change its position to ban Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from attending the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
