Council of State of Cuba
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The Council of State (Spanish: Consejo de Estado) of Cuba is a 31-member body of the government of Cuba, elected by the National Assembly of People's Power. It has the authority to exercise most legislative power between sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, subject to its approval, and to call the National Assembly of People’s Power into session between its scheduled twice yearly sessions. The membership consists of a President, a Secretary, a First Vice President, five Vice Presidents, and 27 additional members. The President, the Secretary, the First Vice President, and the five Vice Presidents are also members of the Council of Ministers.
[edit] Council of State members
As elected by the National Assembly in 2008
| Position |
Member |
| President of Cuba | Raúl Castro |
| First Vice President | José Ramón Machado Ventura |
| Vice President | Gladys M. Bejerano |
| Vice President | Julio Casas Regueiro (died September 2011) |
| Vice President | Abelardo Colomé Ibarra |
| Vice President | resigned |
| Vice President | Esteban Lazo Hernández |
| Secretary | replaced |
| Director of the William Soler Hospital | Nidia Diana Martínez Piti |
| Vice Dean of the Salvador Allende Faculty | María T. Ferrer Madrazo |
| Director of Santiago de Cuba Education | Marta Hernández Romero |
| Minister of Health | José Ramón Balaguer |
| First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the PCC in Havana | Mercedes López Acea |
| First Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League | Liudmila Álamo Dueñas |
| Vice President of the Council of Ministers | Pedro Miret Prieto |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Bruno Rodríguez |
| Minister of Basic Industry | replaced |
| Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba | Francisco Soberón Valdés - resigned |
| Member of the Council of State | replaced |
| Director of the Jose Martí Program Office | Armando Hart Dávalos |
| President of the Casa de las Américas | Roberto Fernández Retamar |
| President of the Electronics Group | replaced |
| First Vice President of the National Institute of Sports | Julio Cristhian Jiménez Molina |
| Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment | Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín |
| General Director of the Genetics and Biotechnology | Luis S. Herrera Martínez |
| Territorial Delegate of the Ministry of Science | Iris Betancourt Téllez |
| Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions | Pedro Ross Leal |
| General Secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women | Yolanda Ferrer Gomez |
| President of the National Association of Small Farmers | Orlando Lugo Fonte |
