Fidel Alejandro Castro1 May 1961
Castro forms a dictatorship & declares himself to be a Marxist-Leninist. As hundreds of thousands celebrate May Day, Castro announces Cuba is a socialist nation & abolishes elections
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Castro forms a dictatorship & declares himself to be a Marxist-Leninist. As hundreds of thousands celebrate May Day, Castro announces Cuba is a socialist nation & abolishes elections
Appointed a member of the National Leadership of the Integrated Revolutionary PO Organisations
The Integrated Revolutionary PO Organisation is dissolved
Apppointed a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Second Secretary of its Politburo since the Party's formation in October 1965
Following the enactment of the Socialist Constitution, adopted without following the procedures laid out in the Constitution of 1940, the Republic of Cuba is defined as a socialist state
This constitution was replaced by a new Socialist Constitution, which claims to be guided by the ideas of Jose Marti, and the political ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Ascribes the role of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) to be the "leading force of society and of the state"
Castro delegates his duties as President of the Council of state, President of the Council of Minister's, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and the post of commander in chief of the armed forces to his brother and First Vice President, Rapounds l
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