José Ramón Machado Ventura

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José Ramón Machado Ventura (born October 26, 1930 in San Antonio de las Vueltas , Las Villas province ) was Vice President of the State Council of Cuba and Second Secretary of the ruling Communist Party . With the election of Raúl Castro as president , Machado Ventura became his successor.

José Ramón Machado was born in San Antonio de las Vueltas , located in the former province of Las Villas and now part of the municipality of Camajuaní , and went to school in Camajuaní and Remedios . He graduated from the University of Havana with a doctorate in medicine in 1953. Machado followed the emerging revolutionary movement immediately after Fulgencio Batista's coup d'état on March 10, 1952 , while he was still a medical student, and was one of the first members of the July 26th Movement to fight its dictatorship . Later, under the command of Che Guevara and then under Fidel Castro , he was one of the most original fighters who fought in the guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra . In 1958 he was promoted to captain in the command of Raúl Castro , who was trying to open a second front on the edge of the Sierra Cristal . There he was employed in the medical services and established a network of hospitals and drug dispensaries and was promoted to the rank of major ( comandante ), which was the highest rank in the rebel army.

After the victory of the revolution on January 1, 1959, he became Director of the Medical Services in Havana and later Minister of Health from 1960 to 1967 . During this time he was responsible for health care development in Cuba. After a dispute with Fidel Castro about how the health sector should be run, he was sent to the Matanzas province in January 1968 as a delegate from the Politburo and held this position until mid-1971. During his tenure there, the health system, the local economy, especially agriculture, public transport and child mortality developed positively. Machado was then First Secretary of the Communist Party of Havana Province and was elected a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba in December 1975.

José Ramón Machado Ventura is a member of the Cuban People's Assembly and represents the Municipio Guantánamo . Since 2006 he has been responsible for overseeing Cuba's internal educational programs. He is described as a hardliner of communist ideology and a revolutionary of the old guard.

Machado was elected by parliament on February 24, 2008 as 1st Vice-President of the Council of State , at the same time as Raúl Castro was appointed Head of State and Government to succeed his brother Fidel, who was ill. He received 601 votes out of a total of 609. His election surprised some observers expecting someone younger in the position. On the VI. At the Congress of the Communist Party, the ruling and only authorized party in Cuba, Machado was elected second secretary in April 2011, taking over the previous function from Raúl Castro, who succeeded his brother Fidel as party chairman (first secretary).

At the constituent session of the newly elected Cuban parliament on February 24, 2013, Machado Ventura was re-elected to the office of Vice President of the State Council. However, he lost the office of First Vice to Miguel Díaz-Canel, 30 years his junior .

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  1. ↑ a b c d "FACTBOX: Facts about Cuba's new No.2, Machado Ventura" , Reuters, March 29, 2009
  2. ↑ Elegido José Ramón Machado Ventura primer vicepresidente ( Memento of the original dated February 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Prensa Latina, February 24, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prensalatina.com.mx
  3. ↑ a b "Results of Council of State elections" ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Granma.cu, March 28, 2009.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / granma.cu
  4. ↑ "Raul Castro named Cuban president" , Al Jazeera , March 28 of 2009.
  5. ^ "Raul Castro named Cuban president," BBC News, March 28, 2009.
  6. ↑ The 6th party congress is over; now, to work CubaDebate April 20, 2011, accessed May 2, 2011
  7. ↑ http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2013/02/24/ratificado-raul-como-presidente-del-consejo-de-estado/
personal data
SURNAME Machado Ventura, José Ramón
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machado, José Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban politician and military; Vice President of the State Council
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio de las Vueltas , Las Villas Province, Cuba