| Salvador Valdés Mesa | |
| Office: | Vice President of Cuba |
| President: | Miguel Díaz-Canel |
| Term Start: | 10 October 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Rafael Guas Inclán (1959) |
| Office1: | First Vice President of the Council of State |
| President1: | Miguel Díaz-Canel |
| Term Start1: | 19 April 2018 |
| Term End1: | 10 October 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Miguel Díaz-Canel |
| Successor1: | Post abolished |
| Office2: | Vice President of the Council of State |
| President2: | Raúl Castro |
| Term Start2: | 24 February 2013 |
| Term End2: | 19 April 2018 |
| Alongside2: | Gladys María Bejerano Portela, Mercedes López Acea, José Ramón Machado Ventura and Ramiro Valdés |
| Predecessor2: | Esteban Lazo Hernández |
| Successor2: | Beatriz Jonson Urrutia |
| Office3: | Minister of Labor and Social Security |
| President3: | Fidel Castro |
| Term Start3: | 2 March 1995 |
| Term End3: | 28 December 1999 |
| Predecessor3: | Francisco Linares Calvo |
| Successor3: | Alfredo Morales Cartaya |
| Birth Date: | 13 June 1945 |
| Birth Place: | Amancio Rodríguez, Cuba |
| Party: | 26th of July Movement (1961–1965) Communist Party of Cuba (1965–present) |
| Spouse: | Julia Piloto Saborit |
Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa (born 13 June 1945) is a Cuban politician[1] [2] and former trade union leader. He is the First Vice President of Cuba since April 2018 and is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba. He was elected to succeed Miguel Díaz-Canel as First Vice President of Cuba on 19 April 2018.[3]
Salvador Valdés was part of the Association of Young Rebels since 1961, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. He was a leader of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba and the Communist Party of Cuba. He served as Minister of Labor and Social Security between 1995 and 1999, when he was elected first secretary of the PCC in the province of Camagüey. He has been a deputy of the National Assembly of People's Power since 1993, he is a member of the Political Council of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and a member of the Council of State (first for Santa Cruz del Sur, then Güines starting in the 9th legislature) where he holds one of the five Vice Presidencies.[4] [5]