{"id":57852,"date":"2016-02-24T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T09:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57852"},"modified":"2016-02-24T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T09:40:59","slug":"ramon-castro-cuban-leaders-older-brother-dies-57852-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ramon-castro-cuban-leaders-older-brother-dies-57852-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Castro, Cuban leader&#8217;s older brother, dies at age 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ramon-castro-died-610x343.jpg\" alt=\"Ramon Castro Died\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ramon-castro-died-610x343.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ramon-castro-died-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ramon-castro-died.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Ramon Castro, older brother of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, died in Havana at age 91.<\/h1>\n<p>Born in the rural town of Biran, Ramon Castro participated in the rebellion that led to the Cuban Revolution, but did not follow his brothers into the political arena.<\/p>\n<p>Fidel Castro, now 89, ruled for decades before poor health caused him to turn over power to 84-year-old brother Raul in 2006. The arrangement was formalized when Raul became president two years later.<\/p>\n<p>According to Voice of America, Ramon Castro, who studied agricultural engineering, spent his life tending crops and livestock. He oversaw Cuba&#8217;s sugar production in the 1960s to help increase output, and he founded several state companies handling production and transport of food crops. He also participated in agricultural research.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon was said to resemble his famous younger brother Fidel, but Ramon was known to joke that, because he was the older brother, it was Fidel who resembled Ramon.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramon Castro, older brother of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, died in Havana at age 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,34,14],"tags":[3901,6323],"class_list":["post-57852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-latin-america","category-world","tag-cuba","tag-raul-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57852","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}