Raul Castro

Raul Castro
Personal life
Date and place of birth	june 3, 1931 Birán, Oriente Province, Cuba
Parents	Angel Castro y Argiz Lina Ruz González (out of wedlock)
Claimed religion	Atheist
Education	Jesuit School of Colegio Dolores
Spouse	Vilma Espín
Children
Dictatorial career
Country	Cuba
Military service	26th of July Movement (guerrilla organization)
Highest rank attained	n/a
Political beliefs	Socialism Communism
Political party	Communist Party of Cuba
Date of dictatorship	February, 2008
Wars started
Number of deaths attributed

Raul Castro (born 3 June 1931) is the younger brother of Fidel Castro, and succeeded his brother as President of Cuba in 2008, having acted as de facto president since 2006. He was not elected to this position. He had previously been head of the Cuban armed forces. Castro is an atheist Marxist-Leninist dictator.

See also

• Dictatorship
  • Dictator
  • List of dictators
  • Friendly dictator
  • Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao, Kim Jong-Il, Pol Pot
  • Dictatorship of the proletariat
  • List of Communist States
  • List of Socialist States
  • Death toll of communism
  • Coup d'état
• Cult of personality
• Single-party state
• Big government Welfare state leads to Nanny state, leads to Police state: Globalist-Statist-Socialist-Communist
• Liberal totalitarianism