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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 ...
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 ...
Back in Cuba, Castro feared a US-backed coup; in 1959 his regime spent $120 million on Soviet, French, and Belgian weaponry and by early 1960 had doubled the size of Cuba's armed forces. [179] Fearing counter-revolutionary elements in the army, the government created a People's Militia to arm citizens favourable to the revolution, training at ...
Whatever happened to Alejandro Castro Espín these years remains a mystery.
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.
On 26 March 1962, the IRO became the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC) which, in turn, became the modern Communist Party of Cuba on 3 October 1965, with Castro as First Secretary. Castro remained the ruler of Cuba, first as Prime Minister and, from 1976, as President, until his retirement on February 20, 2008. [131]
Juanita Castro co-wrote her memoirs and the history of the Castro family, ‘Fidel and Raúl, mis Hermanos, la historia secreta’ (Fidel and Raúl, my brothers, the secret history (Aguilar, 2009 ...
Ramón Eusebio Castro Ruz [a] (/ ˈ k æ s t r oʊ / KASS-troh, Latin American Spanish: [raˈmon ewˈseβjo ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 14 October 1924 – 23 February 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary, activist and farmer. He was the eldest brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro and a key figure of the early days of the Cuban Revolution.