{"id":34555,"date":"2013-02-25T14:09:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=34555"},"modified":"2013-02-25T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:09:25","slug":"cubas-president-raul-castro-reelected-his-plans-to-retire-in-2018-latin-america-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/cubas-president-raul-castro-reelected-his-plans-to-retire-in-2018-latin-america-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba\u2019s president Raul Castro reelected, His plans to retire in 2018 \/ Latin America News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/raul-Castro-cuba-president.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34571\" title=\"raul Castro-cuba-president\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/raul-Castro-cuba-president.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/raul-Castro-cuba-president.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/raul-Castro-cuba-president-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Cuba\u2019s National Assembly has appointed Raul Castro to his second five-year term in office as president.<\/h1>\n<p>Miguel Diaz-Canel has been picked as his first vice president. The 52-year-old politician is now the first in line to the country&#8217;s presidency. He replaces former first vice, Jose Machado Ventura, 82, who will continue as one of five vice presidents.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of the\u00a0Revolution\u00a0Ramiro Valdes, 80, and Gladys Bejerano, 66, the comptroller general, were also re-elected as vice presidents.<\/p>\n<p>Raul Castro said that Diaz-Canel&#8217;s promotion \u201c<em>represents a definitive step in the configuration of the future leadership of the nation through the gradual and orderly transfer of key roles to new generations.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur greatest satisfaction is the tranquility and serene confidence we feel as we deliver to the new generations the responsibility to continue building socialism,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This comes as Cuba&#8217;s newly elected 612-member parliament gathered on Sunday. Former leader Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance and attended the session.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Raul Castro joked that as he was going to be 82, he had the \u201cright to retire\u201d during an event outside of Havana with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba President Raul Castro\u00a0\u00a0announced that he will retire after the term ends in 2018.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba\u2019s National Assembly has appointed Raul Castro to his second five-year term in office as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,34,101,14],"tags":[3901,26777,7784,2000,77170,6323,15765,46651,46650,46653],"class_list":["post-34555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-politics","category-world","tag-cuba","tag-cuba-president-raul-castro","tag-election","tag-fidel-castro","tag-politics","tag-raul-castro","tag-raul-castro-cuba","tag-raul-castro-plans-retire-2018","tag-raul-castro-reelected","tag-raul-castro-second-five-year-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}