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Last Updated: Feb 24, 2008 - 4:49:50 PM |
Cuba's current governing Council of State, which is to be reshuffled Sunday when legislators replace Fidel Castro as president, fill four vacancies and likely substitute other members:
_President: Fidel Castro, 81.
_First vice president: Raul Castro, 76. Also defense minister, provisional president during brother's illness.
_Vice president: Juan Almeida Bosque, 80. 1950s revolutionary commander.
_Vice president: Gen. Abelardo Colome Ibarra, 68. Also interior minister.
_Vice president: Carlos Lage, 56. Also secretary of council of ministers, making him de facto prime minister.
_Vice president: Esteban Lazo Hernandez, 63. Longtime Communist Party leader.
_Vice President: Dr. Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, 76. 1950s revolutionary figure and Communist Party ideologue.
_Secretary: Dr. Jose M. Miyar Barrueco, 75. 1950s revolutionary leader, longtime aide to Fidel Castro.
_23 other members, including Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, Central Bank President Francisco Soberon and Communications Minister Ramiro Valdes.
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