as reported by AP and posted on MiamiHearld.com:
Posted on Fri, Feb. 20, 2009
Cuba makes Ramiro Valdes, 2 others Cabinet VPs
Cuba has promoted revolutionary commander Ramiro Valdes Menendez and two others to the posts of vice presidents of its Cabinet.
Valdes was a leader of the rebel force that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. He is a communist hard-liner and former interior minister who has been communications minister since 2006.
Also promoted as Transportation Minister Jorge Luis Sierra and Agriculture Minister Ulises Rosales Toro, an army general.
Cuba's top governing body is the Council of State, which ordered the promotions that were announced Friday in Communist Party newspaper Granma.
Vice presidents of the Cabinet are not considered vice presidents of the country.
