The Communist Party of Cuba is the ruling party in the Republic of Cuba. In Cuba, people elect members of the National Assembly of People's Power which then chooses a President who exercises executive power. Every member of the National Assembly is a member of the CPC.
Since 1992 the Cuban government has allowed other parties to exist, but it does not allow them, or the ruling Communist party, to campaign.
Cuba is a single party communist republic.
Cuban People's Party
Well, Fidel Castro was not actually a member of the Communist party. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was. But Fidel was the leader og the July 26 Movement, which overthrew the Batista dictatorship.
Fidel Castro trained as a lawyer, and in his younger years helped to defend political victims of the Batista regime when they were tried in court. From the mid-1950s onwards, he began giving over increasing amounts of time to political activism against Batista, and eventually to leading the Cuban Communist Party in planning revolution.
Fidel Castro held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and then became the President of the Council of State and the President of the Council of Ministers from 1976 to 2008. After his retirement in 2008, his brother Raul Castro succeeded him as the leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro identified him with great generals such as Alexander the Great, Aníbal, and Napoleon. He also expresses great respect and admiration, in spite of their political views, for the pro-Franco Spanish Jesuits who educated him. Castro's authoritarian paternalism can't conceive the possibility that Cuban revolutionaries could effectively defend the country and socialism if they had political differences and were organized in more than one party. He makes it abundantly clear that his view of socialism requires a "unity" that is incompatible with the organized expression of differences of opinion. Fidel Castro: Biografía a Dos Voces interview with Ignacio Ramonet.
Fidel Castro was a revolutionary leader who established a communist regime in Cuba. His primary ally in the revolution was Che Guvarra. He was the first secretary of the communist party of Cuba from 1961 to 2011. He was also a Prime Minister, President, and Commander in Chief.
Fidel Castro identified him with great generals such as Alexander the Great, Aníbal, and Napoleon. He also expresses great respect and admiration, in spite of their political views, for the pro-Franco Spanish Jesuits who educated him. Castro's authoritarian paternalism can't conceive the possibility that Cuban revolutionaries could effectively defend the country and socialism if they had political differences and were organized in more than one party. He makes it abundantly clear that his view of socialism requires a "unity" that is incompatible with the organized expression of differences of opinion.
Cuba does not have a "prime minister" as such. The official position of Prime Minister was abolished in 1976, and replaced by the position of "President of the Council of Ministers." The last prime minister was Fidel Castro, who assumed the new position. The current council president is his brother, Raúl Castro, who is concurrently the First Secretary of the Communist Party in Cuba.
Fidel Castro identified him with great generals such as Alexander the Great, Aníbal, and Napoleon. He also expresses great respect and admiration, in spite of their political views, for the pro-Franco Spanish Jesuits who educated him. Castro's authoritarian paternalism can't conceive the possibility that Cuban revolutionaries could effectively defend the country and socialism if they had political differences and were organized in more than one party. He makes it abundantly clear that his view of socialism requires a "unity" that is incompatible with the organized expression of differences of opinion.
Fidel Castro identified him with great generals such as Alexander the Great, Aníbal, and Napoleon. He also expresses great respect and admiration, in spite of their political views, for the pro-Franco Spanish Jesuits who educated him. Castro's authoritarian paternalism can't conceive the possibility that Cuban revolutionaries could effectively defend the country and socialism if they had political differences and were organized in more than one party. He makes it abundantly clear that his view of socialism requires a "unity" that is incompatible with the organized expression of differences of opinion.
Fidel Castro identified him with great generals such as Alexander the great, Aníbal, and Napoleon. He also expresses great respect and admiration, in spite of their political views, for the pro-Franco Spanish Jesuits who educated him. Castro's authoritarian paternalism can't conceive the possibility that Cuban revolutionaries could effectively defend the country and socialism if they had political differences and were organized in more than one party. He makes it abundantly clear that his view of socialism requires a "unity" that is incompatible with the organized expression of differences of opinion.
Democratic Party