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The Council of State of Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

is a 31-member body of the government of Cuba, elected by the National Assembly of People’s Power. It has the authority to exercise most legislative power between sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, subject to its approval, and to call the National Assembly of People’s Power into session between its scheduled twice yearly sessions. The membership consists of a President, a Secretary, a First Vice President, five Vice Presidents, and 27 additional members. The President, the Secretary, the First Vice President, and the five Vice Presidents are also members of the Council of Ministers

Council of Ministers of Cuba

The Cabinet of Cuba is the highest ranking executive and administrative body of the Republic of Cuba, and constitutes the nation's government...

Council of State members

As elected by the National Assembly in 2008

Position	Member
President of Cuba President of Cuba --209.174.31.28 18:43, 22 November 2011 The President of Cuba is the Head of state of Cuba. According to the Cuban Constitution of 1976, the President is the chief executive of the Council of State of Cuba...	Raúl Castro Raúl Castro Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who has been President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008; he previously exercised presidential powers in an acting capacity from 2006 to 2008...
First Vice President	José Ramón Machado Ventura José Ramón Machado Ventura José Ramón Machado Ventura, M.D. is the First Vice-President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers in Cuba...
Vice President	Gladys M. Bejerano
Vice President	Julio Casas Regueiro Julio Casas Regueiro Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro was a Cuban politician. He was a Vice-President of the Council of State and the Minister of Defense.... (died September 2011)
Vice President	Abelardo Colomé Ibarra Abelardo Colomé Ibarra Corps General Abelardo Colomé Ibarra is a Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba and the Cuban Minister of the Interior.He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba...
Vice President	resigned
Vice President	Esteban Lazo Hernández Esteban Lazo Hernández Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández is a vice-president of the Cuban Council of State and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.- References :...
Secretary	replaced
Director of the William Soler Hospital	Nidia Diana Martínez Piti
Vice Dean of the Salvador Allende Faculty	María T. Ferrer Madrazo
Director of Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city of Cuba and capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island, some south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana.... Education	Marta Hernández Romero Marta Hernández Romero Marta Hernández Romero, born in Santiago de Cuba, is the current city mayor of Havana, Cuba, elected on March 5, 2011. She is the President of the People's Power Provincial Assembly of the City of Havana , diputada to the National Assembly, and a member of the Council of State in the VI Legislature...
Minister of Health Healthcare of Cuba The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. There are no private hospitals or clinics as all health services are government-run. The present Minister for Public Health is José Ramón Balaguer.An...	José Ramón Balaguer
First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the PCC in Havana Havana Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...	Mercedes López Acea
First Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League	Liudmila Álamo Dueñas
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Council of Ministers of Cuba The Cabinet of Cuba is the highest ranking executive and administrative body of the Republic of Cuba, and constitutes the nation's government...	Pedro Miret Prieto
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Bruno Rodríguez
Minister of Basic Industry	replaced
Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba Central Bank of Cuba The Central Bank of Cuba is the central bank of Cuba. It was created in 1997, to take over many of the functions of the National Bank of Cuba...	Francisco Soberón Valdés - resigned
Member of the Council of State	replaced
Director of the Jose Martí José Martí José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban... Program Office	Armando Hart Dávalos
President of the Casa de las Américas Casa de las Américas Casa de las Américas is an organization that was founded by the Cuban Government in April 1959, four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the socio-cultural relations with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world...	Roberto Fernández Retamar Roberto Fernández Retamar Roberto Fernández Retamar is a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also serves on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he has remained a central...
President of the Electronics Group	replaced
First Vice President of the National Institute of Sports	Julio Cristhian Jiménez Molina
Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment	Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín was the Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment in Cuba. Her role in government includes raising awareness of environmental issues amongst Cubans.-Career:...
General Director of the Genetics and Biotechnology	Luis S. Herrera Martínez
Territorial Delegate of the Ministry of Science	Iris Betancourt Téllez
Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions	Pedro Ross Leal
General Secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women Women in Cuba In Cuba women have equal constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural and social fields, as well as in the family. According to article 44 of the Cuban Constitution, the state guarantees women the same opportunities and possibilities as men, in order to achieve woman’s full...	Yolanda Ferrer Gomez
President of the National Association of Small Farmers National Association of Small Farmers The National Association of Small Farmers is a cooperative federation dedicated to promoting the interests of small farmers in Cuba. ANAP has over 300,000 members.-History:...	Orlando Lugo Fonte

Council of State members

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