Raul Castro was elected first secretary of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) by its new Central Committee, presented Tuesday during the closing session of the party´s 6th Congress.
The post of second secretary went to Jose Machado Ventura, who will also head the Central Committee Secretariat, comprised of seven members.
The Political Bureau, previously with 24 members, now has 15, and includes Ramiro Valdes, Abelardo Colome Ibarra, Julio Casas Regueiro, Esteban Lazo, Ricardo Alarcon and Miguel Díaz-Canel.
The other members are Leopoldo Cintra Frias, Ramon Espinosa Martin, Alvaro Lopez Miera and Salvador Valdes, who along with the first group, were previous members of the Political Bureau.
New members include Marino Murillo, Adel Yzquierdo and Mercedes López Acea, the only woman in the group.
Along with Machado Ventura and Lazo, the Secretariat is comprised of José Ramon Balaguer, Abelardo Alvarez, Victor Gaute, Olga Lidia Tapia and Misael Enamorado.
Political Bureau
First Secretary: Raúl Castro Ruz
Second Secretary: José Ramón Machado Ventura
- Ramiro Valdés Menéndez
- Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
- Julio Casas Regueiro
- Esteban Lazo Hernández
- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
- Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
- Leopoldo Cintra Frías
- Ramón Espinosa Martín
- Álvaro López Miera
- Salvador Valdés Mesa
- Mercedes López Acea
- Marino Murillo Jorge
- Abdel Izquierdo Rodríguez
Secretariat
- José Ramón Machado Ventura
- Esteban Lazo Hernández
- Abelardo Álvarez Gil
- Víctor Gaute López
- Olga Lidia Tapia Iglesias
- José Ramón Balaguer
- Misael Enamorado Dager
Central Committee
- Misleydy Abad Modey
- Division General Onelio Aguilera Bermúdez
- Liudmila Álamo Dueñas
- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
- Rolando Alfonso Borges
- Carmen Alfonso Oseguera
- Abelardo Álvarez Gil
- Felix Álvarez Oliva
- Teresa Amarelle Boue
- Division General Leonardo Andollo Valdés
- Regla Angulo Pardo
- Mayra Arevich Marín
- José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera
- Miguel Barnet Lanza
- Army Corps General Sixto Batista Santana
- Gladys Bejerano Portela
- Aida Rosa Brown Ramírez
- Lidia Esther Brunet Nodarse
- Ana Bueno Guzmán
- Miguel Mario Cabrera Castellanos
- Julio Camacho Aguilera
- Alina Belkis Cárdenas Díaz
- Ara Iris Cardoso Figueredo
- Division General José Carrillo Gómez
- Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro
- Rosa Amalia Castillo Salazar
- Army General Raúl Castro Ruz
- Inés María Chapman Waugh
- Faure Chomón Mediavilla
- Army Corps General Leopoldo Cintras Frías
- Oneida Ciprián Lazaga
- Marcia Cobas Ruiz
- Gustavo Cobreiro Suárez
- Army Corps General Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
- María del Carmen Concepción González
- Jaime Crombet Hernández-Baquero
- Jorge Cuevas Ramos
- Yanina de la Nuez Aclish
- Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez
- Caridad Diego Bello
- Misael Enamorado Dáger
- Army Corps General Ramón Espinoza Martín
- Lázaro Expósito Canto
- José Ramón Fernández Álvarez
- Marcia Fernández Andreu
- Division General Carlos Hernández Gondín
- Yolanda Ferrer Gómez
- Vice Admiral Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo
- Yamilet García Fernández
- Commander of the Revolution Guillermo García Frías
- Julio César García Rodríguez
- Víctor Gaute López
- Yadira Gasques Camejo
- Yolexis Guerra Gómez
- Jorge Luis Guerrero Almaguer
- Ulises Guilarte De Nacimiento
- Armando Hart Dávalos
- Melba Hernández Rodríguez del Rey
- Olga Lidia John Morrison
- Annia Ladrón de Guevara Casals
- Esteban Lazo Hernández
- Eusebio Leal Spengler
- Tania León Silveira
- Mercedes López Acea
- Roberto López Hernández
- Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera
- Orlando Lugo Fonte
- Division General Antonio Lusson Battle
- José Ramón Machado Ventura
- Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz
- Ana María Mari Machado
- Division General Rubén Martínez Puente
- Zoraida Medina Font
- Ernesto Medina Villaveirán
- Division General José Julián Milián Pino
- José Millar Barruecos
- José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz
- Division General Lucio Morales Abad
- Roberto Morales Ojeda
- Miosotis Moreno Delgado
- Marino Murillo Jorge
- Miladis Orraca Castillo
- Division General Ramón Pardo Guerra
- Nayla Patterson Prieto
- Lina Peraza Rodríguez
- Yamila Peña Ojeda
- Santiago Pérez Castellanos
- Sonia Virgen Pérez Mojena
- Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya
- Army Corps General Joaquín Quinta Solá
- Iris Quiñones Rojas
- Olga Lidia Ramírez González
- Esperanza Recio Socarrás
- Amado Ricardo Guerra
- Jorge Risquet Valdés-Saldaña
- Division General Samuel Rodiles Planas
- Judith Rodríguez Hernández
- Division General Raúl Rodríguez Lobaina
- Luis Alberto Rodríguez López Calleja
- Adolfo Rodríguez Nodal
- Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
- Ramón Romero Pérez
- Lisbelkis Rosabal Ponce
- Ulises Rosales del Toro
- Omar Ruiz Martín
- Division General Romárico Sotomayor García
- Bárbara Tandrón Negrín
- Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca
- Olga Lidia Tapia Iglesias
- Luis Torres Iribar
- Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez
- Salvador Valdés Mesa
- Alina Vicente Gaínza
- Josefina Vidal Ferreiro
- Adel Izquierdo Rodríguez