Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba's Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution.
The 89-year-old Castro didn't say who he would endorse as his successor as first secretary of the Communist Party. His retirement means that for the first time in more than six decades Cubans won't have a Castro formally running the country.
conic leader Fidel Castro ruled Cuba since 1959 when he and his band of comrades led the revolution that drove dictator Fulgencio Batista from power.
Fidel handed over power to his younger brother Raul Castro in 2008 after falling ill. Raul succeeded him as head of the party in 2011. Fidel Castro died in 2016.