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Vladimiro Roca Antúnez, the son of a prominent communist leader who grew to become a dissident and opposed Fidel Castro when few dared at the time, died on Sunday, members of the opposition and ...
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz [a] (/ ˈ k æ s t r oʊ / KASS-troh; [6] Latin American Spanish: [raˈul moˈðesto ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired 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, [7] from 2011 to 2021, and ...
Whatever happened to Alejandro Castro Espín these years remains a mystery.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz [a] (/ ˈ k æ s t r oʊ / KASS-troh; [1] Latin American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈxandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
Alejandro Castro Espín (born 29 July 1965) is a Cuban political and military figure. He holds the rank of Brigadier General in the Interior Ministry of Cuba. [1] He is the only son of Raúl Castro, the former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Vilma Espín, one of the main leaders of the Cuban Revolution; he is a nephew of Fidel Castro.
A U.S. presidential visit to the inner sanctum of Cuban power would have been unthinkable before Obama and Raul Castro's rapprochement 15 months ago.
Ramón, the eldest of the Castro brothers, the son of Ángel Castro, a Spanish-born rancher, and his second wife, Lina Ruz, grew up on his family's large farm in Birán, Holguin province, in eastern Cuba. Ramon Castro, who studied agricultural engineering, spent his life tending crops and livestock.
Since Fidel Castro's younger brother Raúl Castro took over leadership responsibility in the Party and Cuba in July 2006, observers have pointed out the politically significant differences between the decades-long companions (most significantly a move to a market-socialist economy) and have used the terms "Fidelism" (Spanish: Fidelismo), "Post ...