Current Council of State. Term 2008-2013.
Position |
Member |
Other posts |
President |
President of the Council of Ministers. Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. |
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First Vice President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers |
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC and Organizational Secretary of the CPC. Fought in the Frank País Second Eastern Front under Raúl Castro. Professional physician. |
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Vice President |
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC. President of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution. |
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Vice President |
Minister of the Interior. Fought in the Frank País Second Eastern Front under Raúl Castro. |
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Vice President |
Army Corps General. Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. Fought in the Frank País Second Eastern Front under Raúl Castro. |
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Vice President |
Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC. |
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Vice President |
Carlos Lage Dávila |
Member of the Political Bureau. Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers. Professional physician. |
Secretary |
Member of the Central Committee of the CPC. Professional physician. |
Other members of the Council of State
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José R. Balaguer Cabrera |
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC. Minister of Public Health. Fought in the Frank País Second Eastern Front under Raúl Castro. |
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Pedro Sáez Montejo |
Member of the Political Front of the CPC. First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the CPC in City of Habana. |
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Roberto Fernández Retamar |
President of Casa de las Américas. |
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Felipe Pérez Roque |
Minister of Foreign Relations. Member of the Central Committee of the CPC. |
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Leopoldo Cintra Frías |
Chief of the Western Army. Hero of the Republic of Cuba. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC. Fought in the José Martí Column One, under Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro. |
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Orlando Lugo Fonte |
Member of the Central Committee of the CPC. President of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) |
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Ramiro Valdés Menéndez |
Minister of Computer Sciences and Communications. Moncada Barracks raider. Granma expeditionist. Commander of the Revolution. Hero of the Republic of Cuba. |
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Tania León Silveira |
President of the Municipal Assembly of the People’s Power in Colón, Matanzas. Agrochemical and Agrological Engineer; graduated in the Soviet Union. |
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Álvaro López Miera |
Vice Minister of the MINFAR; Chief of General Staff. Army Corps General. Fought in the Frank País Second Eastern Front under Raúl Castro. Hero of the Republic of Cuba. |
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Francisco Soberón Valdés |
Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba. Social Sciences graduate. Sociales. Post-graduate degree in Multiuse Computer Systems. |
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Julio Martínez Ramírez |
First Secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Communist Youths. |
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Inés María Chapman Waugh |
Hydraulics engineer. Provincial delegate to the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources. |
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Iris Betancourt Téllez |
Veterinarian. Territorial delegate to the Ministry of Sciences, Technology and the Environment in the province of Granma. |
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Guillermo García Frías |
Commander of the Revolution. Hero of the Republic of Cuba. Director of the National Enterprise for the Protection of Flora and Fauna. Member of the Central Committee of the CPC. |
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Luis Saturnino Herrera Martínez |
Director General of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. |
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María Yolanda Ferrer Gómez |
Secretary General of the Federation of Cuban Women. Graduated in Political Sciences. |
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Regla Dayamí Armenteros Mesa |
Member of the Central Committee of the CPC. Specializes in Economic Affairs. |
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Dignora Montano Perdomo |
Vice Dean of the University Extension of the Higher Polytechnical Institute "Capitán Silverio Blanco Núñez". Has a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences. |
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Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa |
Secretary general of the National CTC. Member of the Central Committee of the CPC. |
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María del Carmen Concepción González |
Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC. Graduate in History and Social Sciences. |
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Carlos Valenciaga Díaz |
Chief of staff for Fidel Castro Ruz. Graduate in Education (Marxism-Leninism) and History. Member of the Central Committee of the CPC. |
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Juan José Rabilero Fonseca |
National Coordinator for the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. A physician. |
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Surina Acosta Brook |
Secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women in Santiago de Cuba. Graduate in Cattle Engineering at the Superior Institute of Animal Sciences, Bayamo. |
Previous Council of State. Term 2003-2008.
Position |
Member |
Other posts |
President |
President of the Council of Ministers. Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC. |
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First Vice President |
Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces |
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Vice President |
Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC. President of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution. |
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Vice President |
Minister of the Interior |
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Vice President |
Executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers |
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Vice President |
Member of the Political Bureau and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC |
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Vice President |
Member of the Political Bureau and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC. |
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Secretary |
Physician |
Other Members of the Council of State (2003-2008)
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Nidia Diana Martínez Piti |
Former director, William Soler Pediatric Hospital |
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María T. Ferrer Madrazo |
Vice Dean, Salvador Allende Pedagogical School |
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Marta Hernández Romero |
Director of the Provincial Directorate of Education in City of Habana. |
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José R. Balaguer Cabrera |
Minister of Public Health |
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Julio Casas Regueiro |
First Vice Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces |
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Pedro Sáez Montejo |
First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the CPC, City of Habana. |
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Otto Rivero Torres |
Vice President of the Council of Ministers |
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Pedro Miret Prieto |
Vice President of the Council of Ministers |
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Minister of Foreign Relations |
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Roberto I. González Planas (revoked) |
Minister of Computer Sciences and Communications. Replaced. |
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Marcos Portal León (revoked) |
Minister of Basic Industries. Replaced. |
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Francisco Soberón Valdés |
Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba. |
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Carlos Valenciaga Díaz |
Presidential chief of staff |
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Armando Hart Dávalos |
Director of the Office of Martí Programs |
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Roberto Fernández Retamar |
President of the Casa de las Américas |
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Ramiro Valdés Menéndez |
Minister of Computer Sciences and Communications |
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Julio Cristhian Jiménez Molina |
President of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation |
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Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín (deceased) |
Former Minister of Sciences, Technology and the Environment. |
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Luis S. Herrera Martínez |
Director General of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology |
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Iris Betancourt Téllez |
Territorial delegate to the Ministry of Sciences, Technology and the Environment from the province of Granma. |
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Pedro Ross Leal |
Ambassador to the People’s Republic of Angola |
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Vilma Espín Guillois (deceased) |
Former President of the Federation of Cuban Women |
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Orlando Lugo Fonte |
President of the National Association of Small Farmers |