First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba) is the de facto leader of Cuba. The First Secretary is the highest office within the Communist Party of Cuba as well as ranking first in the Politburo, the highest decision-making body in Cuba, which makes the office holder the most powerful person in the Cuban government.
| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba | |
|---|---|
| Central Committee | |
| Style | Comrade (Formal) |
| Type | Party leader Supreme leader |
| Member of | Central Committee, Politburo, Secretariat |
| Seat | Palace of the Revolution Havana, Cuba |
| Appointer | Central Committee |
| Term length | Five years renewable once |
| Constituting instrument | Statute of the Communist Party of Cuba |
| Formation | 3 October 1965 |
| First holder | Fidel Castro |
| Deputy | Second Secretary |
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Officeholders
| Portrait | Name (Born-Died) |
Term | Second Secretary | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Duration | |||
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (1925–1939) | |||||
| José Miguel Pérez (1896–1936[1]) | 20 August 1925[1] | 1925 | 0 years | – | |
| José Peña Vilaboa (1891–1927) | 1925 | 1926 | 0–1 years | – | |
| Jorge Vivo (1890–1950) | 1927 | August 1933 | 5–6 years | – | |
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (1925–1939) | |||||
| Blas Roca Calderio (1908–1987) | December 1933 | 1939 | 5–6 years | – | |
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Union (1939–1944) | |||||
| Blas Roca Calderio (1908–1987) | 1939 | 1944 | 4–5 years | – | |
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Popular Socialist Party (1944–1961) | |||||
| Blas Roca Calderio (1908–1987) | 1944 | 24 June 1961 | 16–17 years | – | |
| First Secretary of the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (1961–1962) | |||||
| Fidel Castro (1926–2016) | July 1961 | 26 March 1962 | 8 months | Raúl Castro (1961 – 1962) | |
| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the United Party for the Socialist Revolution of Cuba (1962–1965) | |||||
| Fidel Castro (1926–2016) | 26 March 1962 | 3 October 1965 | 3 years, 191 days | Raúl Castro (1962 – 1965) | |
| First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (1965–present) | |||||
| Fidel Castro (1926–2016) | 3 October 1965 | 19 April 2011[2] | 45 years, 198 days | Raúl Castro (1965 – 2011) | |
| Raúl Castro (born 1931) | 19 April 2011[2] | 19 April 2021 | 10 years, 0 days | José Ramón Machado Ventura (since 2011) | |
| Miguel Díaz-Canel (born 1960) | 19 April 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 132 days | José Ramón Machado Ventura[3] | |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Canarias-semanal.org. "JOSÉ MIGUEL PÉREZ, EL PALMERO QUE FUNDÓ NADA MENOS QUE DOS PARTIDOS COMUNISTAS". Canarias-semanal I Digital informativo de ámbito internacional y actualización diaria (in español). Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Fidel Castro at Cuba congress alongside Raul" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2011-04-19. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-13133130. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ↑ Meneses, Yaima Puig (April 21, 2021). Díaz-Canel chairs the Extraordinary Plenary of the Party in Havana (+ Video). http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2021-04-21/preside-diaz-canel-pleno-extraordinario-del-partido-en-la-habana-21-04-2021-00-04-11. Retrieved April 21, 2021.