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Raúl Castro

1931 - Today

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Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (; American Spanish: [raˈul moˈðesto ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban politician who is currently serving as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, succeeding his brother, Fidel Castro, in April 2011. Castro has also been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, the highest decision-making body, since 1975. He served as the Minister of the Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raúl Castro has received more than 4,003,361 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Raúl Castro is the 386th most popular politician (down from 282nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Cuba and the 2nd most popular Cuban Politician.

Raúl Castro is most famous for being the President of Cuba from 2008 to 2018.

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  • 90

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Raúl Castro ranks 386 out of 15,710. Before him are Louis Bonaparte, Şehzade Mustafa, Artaxerxes I of Persia, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Vitellius, and Didius Julianus. After him are Mustafa II, José Mujica, Louis X of France, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Willy Brandt, and Tiberius Gracchus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Raúl Castro ranks 7. Before him are Mikhail Gorbachev, Rajneesh, Boris Yeltsin, Toni Morrison, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and James Dean. After him are Robert Duvall, Tomas Tranströmer, Alice Munro, Chun Doo-hwan, Philip Kotler, and Ian Holm.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Raúl Castro ranks 2 out of 202. Before him are Fidel Castro (1926). After him are Fulgencio Batista (1901), Italo Calvino (1923), José Raúl Capablanca (1888), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), Paul Lafargue (1842), José Martí (1853), Alberto Korda (1928), Andy García (1956), Compay Segundo (1907), and Gloria Estefan (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cuba

Among politicians born in Cuba, Raúl Castro ranks 2. Before him are Fidel Castro (1926). After him are Fulgencio Batista (1901), Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Emilio Mola (1887), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1956), Juan Almeida Bosque (1927), Gerardo Machado (1871), Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819), Aleida March (1936), and Ramón Grau (1881).

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