Biography of Raul

According to the Granma newspaper, speaking at the VIII Party Congress, Summer Raul Castro said that he was pleased that he was passing through the leadership of the country of trained leaders. The origin, education of Raul Castro is a full name - Raul Modest Castro was born on June 3 in the Manakas estate, not far from the village of Biran in the province of Oreent from the year - Olgin province in the east of Cuba.

He was the fourth of the seven children in the family of the Spanish emigrant, the wealthy landowner of Angel Castro Archis and Lina Rus Gonzalez younger than his brother Fidel Castro for five years. Raul studied at the military-Grazhdan school, the Jesuit college "Dolores" in Santiago de Cuba and "Belen" in Havana. In the year he entered the University of Gavana, but active political activity prevented him from getting higher education.

He sympathized with the Partido Socialista Popular folk socialist party; It was founded in the year as a communist party and for some time was a member of its youth wing "Socialist youth." After the coup, committed on March 10, General Fullyhensio Batisto, the Castro brothers were among those who advocated the overthrow of the dictatorship through armed struggle and the establishment of a revolutionary government.

The armed struggle on July 26, Raul, participated in the assault on the army barracks Moncada in Santiago de Cuba. This uprising, organized by Fidel Castro, was supposed to be the beginning of the revolution, but failed. The brothers managed to leave the city and hide in the mountains. However, a few days later both were detained, and in October, they were convicted: Raul - 13 years in prison, Fidel - for 15 years.

We were serving a sentence on the island of Pinos at the present time - the island of Huntud. After the amnesty of the year, they left for Mexico, where they began preparing a new armed uprising. They organized the rebel army, which for two years waged a partisan war. After the victory of the revolution on January 1, the Cuban revolutionaries won, after which Raul Castro took up the position of commander of the military district of the province of Oreente.

In October, he became the Minister of Revolutionary Armed Forces in this post until February. In fact, Raul Castro was a “second man” in the country after Fidel, playing an important role in the formation of the political system of the revolutionary Cuba. In March, he was elected second secretary of the national leadership of the United Revolutionary Organizations, which by May were transformed into a single party in the Socialist Revolution of the Cuba of the EPSRK.

In addition, in the year he became the deputy prime minister of the government, and in the year-Fidel Castro occupied the first deputy prime minister. In the year, after the adoption of the new Constitution, he was elected deputy of the National Assembly of People's power by a single -fed parliament and became the first deputy chairman of the State Council of the Head of State and the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Council of Ministers became Fidel Castro.

In the future, he re -elected into every new convocation, keeping posts in the State Council and the Council of Ministers. In years, after the collapse of the USSR and the cessation of Soviet assistance to the island, the Cuba ran into an acute economic crisis. Already at this time, Raul Castro advocated the gradual weakening of state control over the country's economy.

He initiated a package of laws that partially legalized individual entrepreneurship and opened the economy of Cuba for foreign investment. At the head of Cuba on July 31, due to the deterioration of health, Fidel Castro temporarily transferred his powers to a group of seven people led by Raul Castro. His candidacy was the only, nominated session of the National Assembly of People's Power, and received unanimous approval.

Then he announced his intention to adjust the country's economic course - to cancel the card distribution system of food, to unify monetary circulation in Cuba were two currencies in circulation - Peso National and Porso Convertible, expand the private sector of the economy and more. He managed to implement some of the planned plans. During his leadership, a number of important reforms were carried out in the country, which significantly influenced the life of Cubans.

In accordance with the program adopted in the year, the number of economics in the country has increased the number of people with their own small business.

Real estate and vehicles were allowed, the requirements for those who wish to make a foreign trip on foreign investment and the beginning of the functioning of the special zone of economic development Mariel made Cuba more attractive to foreign companies are allowed. The process of normalizing relations with the United States that began in December was the great success of foreign policy.

In July, diplomatic communications were restored between the countries. However, this time he, as he said repeatedly earlier, did not nominate his candidacy to join the State Council and the Council of Ministers.At the same time, Raul Castro retired the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which allowed him to have a significant impact on socio-political processes in the country.

In April, a new constitution entered into force, the development of which was engaged in a special commission led by Raul Castro. The document made significant changes to the structure of state consumption, in particular, the posts of the president and prime minister were established, private property was partially recognized. The ranks and awards in the year during the armed struggle in the mountains of Sierra -Maestra Raul Castro were awarded the highest rank of the rebel army - commandant.

With the introduction of new military ranks in the year, he became a brigade general. In the year, the title system was again changed, Raul Castro became the Army General. He was awarded the highest state award - the title of Hero of the Republic of Kuba was awarded the Order of Maximum Gomez 1st degree also has high awards of other states. Personal information from the year was married to Wilm Espin died in a year.

There is a son Alejandro and three daughters of Deborah, Mariel and Niels. State Committee of the Russian Federation on Press. Separate publications may contain information not intended for users under 16 years old. The information resource is used.