By: Oscar Figueredo Reinaldo
April 19, 2021 | + |
Miguel Diaz Canel Bermudez, was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of #Cuba in the #8voCongresoPCC #CongresodelaContinuidad #CubaSocialista
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba elected Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez as its First Secretary. Right at 10 in the morning, at the Havana Convention Center, the last day of the party meeting began in which the new Central Committee, the Political Bureau and the Secretariat of the party organization were announced.
In his central report, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz said that Díaz-Canel is not the result of improvisation, but of a thoughtful selection of a young revolutionary with the conditions to be promoted to higher positions.
“He successfully passed, for 15 years, as First Secretary of the Party in the provinces of Villa Clara and Holguín, after which he was appointed Minister of Higher Education, Vice President of the Council of Ministers and First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, positions that he combined with the attention of the ideological front in the Party ”.
He also stressed that in the last three years Díaz-Canel has been able to form a team and promote cohesion with the higher bodies of the Party, the State and the Government.
In this way, the Army General, culminates his work as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, satisfied, as he expressed, of the "duty fulfilled and confidence in the future of the Homeland, with the thoughtful conviction of not accepting proposals to stay in the higher organs of the party organization, in whose ranks I will continue to serve as one more revolutionary combatant, ready to make my modest contribution until the end of my life ”.
The Political Bureau is made up of:
• Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Republic of Cuba
• Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power and of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba
• Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic of Cuba
• Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of Organization and Politics of Cadres
• General of the Army Corps, Álvaro López Miera, Minister of the FAR
• Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Chancellor of the Republic
• Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, Secretary General of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba
• Teresa Amarelle Boué, Secretary General of the National Directorate of the Federation of Cuban Women
• Martha Ayala Ávila, general director of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
• Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba
• José Amado Ricardo Guerra, secretary of the Council of Ministers
• Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, executive president of the Business Administration Group
• Major General, Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, Minister of the Interior
• Gladys Martínez Verdecia, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Artemisa
Meanwhile, at the Secretariat
• Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of Organization and Politics of Cadres
• Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, member of the Secretariat and head of the Ideological department in the Central Committee of the Party
• Joel Queipo Ruiz, member of the Secretariat and head of the Economic department in the Central Committee of the Party
• José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, member of the Secretariat and head of the Agrifood department in the Central Committee of the Party
• Félix Duarte Ortega, member of the Secretariat and head of the Industry, Construction, Tourism, Transport and Services department in the Central Committee of the Party
• Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat and head of the Department of Education, Sports and Science in the Central Committee of the Party.
The 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba takes place from April 16 to 19 in the framework of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist character of the Revolution and the Victory of Playa Girón, where Yankee imperialism received its first major defeat. in Latin America.