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Raul Castro – Cuba
April 23 , 2021
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- Raul Castro (89) steps down from leadership of the ruling Cuban Communist Party.
- Raul's departure ends a near six-decade family hold on power in Cuba that started in 1959.
- Thus, for the first time in six decades, Cuba’s socialist government will not have a Castro in top leadership.
- After serving two terms as Cuba’s president, Raul Castro stepped down from that office in 2018.
- He handed over the presidency to Miguel Diaz-Canel, 60, in 2018.
- Díaz-Canel will likely be elected as the new secretary-general of the Communist Party.
Background
- Fidel Castro led Cuba for five decades.
- He dethroned the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 along with his brother Raul.
- He was the world's third longest-serving head of state, after Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej.
- Raul succeeded Fidel Castro as the head of the Communist Party in 2011.
- He led the Cuban socialist government to make deals with US President Obama in 2014.
- It opened up the Cuban economy to the US for the first time since 1960.
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