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Raul Castro steps down
Why is it in news?
- Raul Castro said that he is stepping down as head of Cuba’s Communist Party.
Details:
- Raul Castro is brother of Fidel Castro.
- Stepping down of Raul Castro ended an era of formal leadership that began with Fidel Castro and country’s 1959 revolution.
- This means, for the first time in more than six decades Cubans won’t have a Castro formally guiding their affairs and many had been expecting the change.
Source: The Hindu.