{"id":431925,"date":"2021-04-16T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=431925"},"modified":"2021-04-16T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T00:36:16","slug":"raul-castro-steps-down-as-leader-of-cubas-communist-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raul-castro-steps-down-as-leader-of-cubas-communist-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Raul Castro steps down as leader of Cuba\u2019s Communist Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fraul-castro-steps-down-as-leader-of-cubas-communist-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=431925&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2399544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2399544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this March 17, 2015 file photo, Cuba\u2019s President Raul Castro listened to the Cuban and Venezuelan national anthems during his welcome ceremony at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo\/Ariana Cubillos, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:25 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 16, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Raul Castro stepped down as the leader of Cuba\u2019s Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Castro resigned during the Communist Party\u2019s eighth congress on Friday, and will certify President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel as the party\u2019s next secretary-general.<\/p>\n<p>Castro, who will be 90 this year, and his late brother Fidel, led the Communist Party in Cuba since 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The future generation of leadership under Diaz-Canel is not expected to make any drastic changes to the country\u2019s one-party socialist model.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2399545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2399545\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2399545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2573.jpeg\" alt=\"Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, waves to members at the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba&#039;s opening session, as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, applauds at the Convention Palace, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Ariel Ley Royero\/ACN via AP)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2573.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AP21106579082271-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AP21106579082271-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AP21106579082271.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2399545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, waved to members at the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba\u2019s opening session, as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, applauded at the Convention Palace, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Ariel Ley Royero\/ACN via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Castro indicated his impending resignation to the seventh congress in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody has obliged me to make this decision,\u201d Castro stated. \u201cI believe fervently in the strength and exemplary nature and comprehension of my compatriots, and as long as I live I will be ready with my foot in the stirrups to defend the fatherland, the revolution and socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diaz- Canel and the next generation are expected to address Cuba\u2019s severe economic crisis and pandemic relief plan.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, dissenters in the country and abroad are calling on Biden to put pressure on Cuba to push for Democratic change.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/ag-garland-rescinds-trump-era-restrictions-on-consent-decrees\/\">AG Garland Rescinds Trump-Era Restrictions On Consent Decrees<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this March 17, 2015 file photo, Cuba\u2019s President Raul Castro listened to the Cuban and Venezuelan national anthems during his welcome ceremony at the Miraflores presidential palace &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312366,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2573.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Raul Castro steps down as leader of Cuba\u2019s Communist Party","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2573.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Raul Castro steps down as leader of Cuba\u2019s Communist Party","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}