Raul Castro Acting President Of Cuba

Raul Modesto Castro Ruz was born on June 3, 1931 and is positioned as the Acting President belonging to Cuba as well as Acting President/First Vice President at the Cuban Council of State. His younger brother is Fidel Castro, who is placed as the First Vice President/Acting President of the Council of Ministers, Acting Commander in Chief Maximum General of the Armed Forces.

Raul Castro took up the responsiblities for sometime in place of Fidel castro who was suffering from illness. He became the President of the Council of State for the time being through the transfer of power on July 31, 2006. The Article 94 of the Constitution of Cuba states that the First Vice President of the Council of State takes up the responsibilities belonging to the President on the event of his not being well or death.

Raul Castro would be the successor of his brother as Fidel has made his intentions clear that he is not willing to work for the next term as the Commander in Chief. He got success in the year 1959 and tied his marital knots with Vilma Espin Guillois, who earlier was a student getting education on MIT chemical engineering as well as was the veteran who later got to the post of the President of the Cuban Federation of Women. They together gave birth to three daughters namely Deborah, Mariela and Nilsa and also had a son whom they called as Alejandro.

Their daughter Mariela is in recent times the head of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education. However unfortunately his wife met the end of her life as on June 18 2007. He initiated his education in a school at Santiago and later went ahead to study in Havana. Raul Castro also actively participated as an undergraduate at the university level in the communist group formed by youths in Havana. As accomapnied with Fidel in the year 1953, he went for the assault that was organised on the Moncada barracks.

Raul Castro also led to the development of many policies relating to finance always remaining in the back picture. He is also positioned as the vice-secretary belonging to Politburo and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. He also turned up at the celebrations that took place in the May Day in Havan as on 1st May, 2007. There was a gathering of nearly one million visitors and the delegates came from more than 225 organizations as well as 52 countries. Raul castro