Politburo

Politburo Members elected at the 5th Congress of the 
Cuban Communist Party (PCC) -- October 8-10, 1997 
[Revised: July 16, 2003]

Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada
  • President of Parliament
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Juan Almeida Bosque
  • Vice-President of the Council of State
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Esteban Lazo Hernandez 
  • Lazo Hernandez replaces Jose Ramon Balaguer Cabrera, takes charge of  Department of  Ideology and Department of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Communist Party (PCC) [June 24, 2003]
  • Balaguer Cabrera remains in charge of the Department of International Relations and takes charge in the area of Public Health [June 24, 2003]

Lazo


Balaguer

Concepcion Campa Huergo
  • President and Director General of the Finlay Institute
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Lt. General Julio Casas Regueiro
  • First Substitute of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR)
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Fidel Castro Ruz
  • First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and President of the Council of State and Ministers

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Raul Castro Ruz
  • Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and Vice-President of the Council of State and Ministers
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Lt. General Leopoldo Cintra Frias
  • Chief of the Western Army
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Lt. Abelardo Colome Ibarra
  • Minister of the Interior
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Yadira Garcia Vera
  • First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in Matanzas Province
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Alfredo Jordan Morales
  • Minister of Agriculture
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Carlos Lage Davila
  • Vice President of the Council of State and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers
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Pedro Saez Montejo

  • First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party of Havana

  • replaces Esteban Lazo Hernandez who takes charge of the Department of  Ideology and Department of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Communist Party (PCC) [June 24, 2003]

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Jose Ramon Machado Ventura
  • Chief of the Organization Department of the Central Committee
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Abel Enrique Prieto Jimenez
  • Minister of Culture
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Felipe Perez Roque
  • Foreign Minister
  • replaces Roberto Robaina Gonzalez [May 28, 1999]
Lt. General Ulises Rosales del Toro
  • Minister of Sugar
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Pedro Ross Leal
  • Secretary General of the Cuban Worker's Union
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Miguel Díaz Canel
 Bermúdez
  • First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Villa Clara
    [promoted to Politburo - July 16, 2003]



Newly elected members of the Politburo in 1997
Misael Enamorado Dager
  • First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Las Tunas

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Lt. General Ramon Espinosa Martin
  • Chief, Eastern Army
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Marcos J. Portal Leon
  • Minister of Basic Industries
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Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte
  • First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Santiago de Cuba
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Jorge Luis Sierra Cruz
  • First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Holguin
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Highlights of the 5th Party Congress

The Central Committee was reduced from a 225 member body to 150.

Party officials approved a platform reaffirming Cuba's single-party communist system and designating ``Yanqui imperialism'' as the main enemy.

The congress, which meets roughly every five years, gave no sign of significant changes in political or economic direction for Cuba.



Source: Radio Havana Cuba - October 1997;  Prensa Latina; EFE; Granma




 

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