# 8th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba

The 8th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) was elected at the 8th CPC Congress on 19 April 2021.

## Plenums

The Central Committee is not a permanent institution. It convenes plenary sessions between party congresses, and in this case between the 8th Congress and the 9th Congress. When the CC is not in session, decision-making power was vested in the internal bodies of the CC itself; that is, the Politburo and the Secretariat. None of these bodies are permanent either; typically they convened several times a month.
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee :
| Plenum | Date | Length | Meeting agenda |
| 1st Plenary Session | 19 April 2021 | 1 day | 1 item. Election of First Secretary and Central Bodies Election of the First Secretary of the Central Committee Miguel Díaz-Canel elected. Election of the 8th Politburo Election of Miguel Díaz-Canel, Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández, Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa, Roberto Morales Ojeda, Álvaro López Miera, Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla, Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, Marta Ayala Ávila, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Teresa María Amarelle Boué, José Amado Ricardo Guerra, Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas and Gladys Martínez Verdecia. Election of the 8th Secretariat Election of Roberto Morales Ojeda, Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, Joel Queipo Ruiz, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, Félix Duarte Ortega and Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo. |
| 2nd Plenary Session | 23–24 October 2021 | 2 days | |
| 3rd Plenary Session | 16–17 December 2021 | 2 days | |
| 4th Plenary Session | 26–27 April 2022 | 2 days | 5 items. Presentation and Debate of the Report on the Work of the Politburo. Evaluation of the Implementation of the Cadre Policy Strategy for the period 2021–2026; Evaluation of the Programme for the Transformation of Political Ideological Work; Evaluation of the Process of Popular Consultation of the Family Code; Evaluation of the Implementation of the Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution approved at the 8th Congress Updating of the document. Anti-inflationary measures approved. Discussion on the system of attention to economic actors, both in the socialist state enterprise and in the non-state sector. |

## Members

| Name | Posts and level of government | 7th CC | Gender |
| Homero Acosta Álvarez | National Assembly Secretary of the Council of State Secretary of the National Assembly of People's Power | Old | Male |
| Raúl Omar Acosta Gregorich | Armed Forces Head of the Western Army of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces | New | Male |
| Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas | Government Minister of Interior | New | Male |
| Teresa María Amarelle Boué | Mass OrganizationSecretary-General of the Federation of Cuban Women | Old | Female |
| Aylin Álvarez García | Mass OrganizationSecond Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League | New | Female |
| Yudelkis Aretuche Torres | Provincial Prosecutor of the Department of Family Protection and Juridirectional Affairs of the Matanzas Provincial Prosecutor's Office | New | Female |
| Mayra Arevich Marín | State-owned enterprise Executive President of Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A | Old | Female |
| Marta Ayala Ávila | Research Institution General Director of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology | Old | Female |
| Walter Baluja García | Research Institution President of the University of Information Science | New | Male |
| Irene Barbado Lucio | State-owned Enterprise Director of the Hermanos Díaz Oil Refinery | New | Female |
| Gladys María Bejerano Portela | Comptroller General Comptroller General of the Republic | Old | Female |
| Yuri Belén Ramírez | Provincial Official of the Artemisa Provincial Party Committee | New | Male |
| Aydiloide Bernal Villegas | Research Institution Assistant Researcher at the Territorial Research Station of Sugar Cane in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara | New | Female |
| Meisi Bolaños Weiss | Government Minister of Finance and Prices | New | Female |
| Juan Bravo Núñez | State-owned Enterprise Director of the "Carlos Manuel de Céspedes" Thermoelectric Plant | New | Male |
| Yanays Bridón Contreras | State-owned Enterprise Head of Rehabilitation Services at the "Guillermo Tejas" Polyclinic in Las Tunas | New | Female |
| Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo | Central Party Apparatus Head of the Education, Sports and Science Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba | Old | Male |
| Jesús Manuel Burón Tabit | Government Vice Minister of the Interior | New | Male |
| Yanaisi Capó Nápoles | Provincial Member of the Executive Bureau of the Granma Provincial Party Committee in charge of agriculture | New | Female |
| Inés María Chapman Waugh | Government Vice Prime Minister of the Republic | Old | Female |
| Alianna Corona Rodríguez | Research Institution Professor at the University of Granma | New | Female |
| Yuniasky Crespo Baquero | Provincial Member of the Executive Bureau of the Havana Provincial Party Committee in charge of ideological work | Old | Female |
| Tania Margarita Cruz Hernández | Government Vice Minister of Public Health | New | Female |
| Bolivia Tamara Cruz Martínez | Mass Organization President of the Union of Journalists of Cuba in Villa Clara | Old | Female |
| Yanina de la Nuez Aclich | Provincial First Secretary of the Mayabeque Provincial Party Committee | Old | Female |
| Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez | Party–State Leader First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba President of the Republic | Old | Male |
| Betsy Díaz Velázquez | Government Minister of Internal Trade | New | Female |
| Caridad del Rosario Diego Bello | Central Party Apparatus Head of the Office of Attention to Religious Affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba | Old | Female |
| Norge Fermín Enrich Pons | Intelligence Head of the Directorate-General of Counterintelligence | New | Male |
| Ramón Espinosa Martín | Government Vice Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces | Old | Male |
| Lázaro Fernando Expósito Canto | Provincial First Secretary of the Santiago de Cuba Provincial Party Committee | Old | Male |
| Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández | National Assembly President of the Council of State President of the National Assembly of People's Power | Old | Male |
| Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera | Government Minister of Labour and Social Security | New | Female |
| Marcia Fernández Andreu | Government Vice Head of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers | Old | Female |
| Luazni Fernández Gutiérrez | State-owned Enterprise General Director of the General Contractor for Tourism Works, ARCOS Varadero in Cárdenas, Matanzas | New | Male |
| Marydé Fernández López | Municipal First Secretary of the Cienfuegos Municipal Party Committee | New | Female |
| Marisol Fuentes Ferrer | Mass Organization General Secretary of the Union of Communications, Information Technology and Electronics Workers | Old | Female |
| Viviana de la Concepción García Escudero | Provincial Head of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the Provincial Hospital "Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima" | New | Female |
| Zunilda García Garcés | Municipal First Secretary of the Isla de la Juventud Municipal Party Committee | New | Female |
| Juan Carlos García Granda | Government Minister of Tourism | New | Male |
| Julio César García Rodríguez | Government Head of the Cuban Civil Missions Office in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | Old | Male |
| Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez | Provincial First Secretary of the Ciego de Ávila Provincial Party Committee | New | Male |
| Caridad Anais Gasmuri González | Research Institution Head of the Department of Productive Process Control at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Playa, Havana | New | Female |
| Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández | Government Vice Prime Minister of the Republic Minister of Economy and Planning | New | Male |
| Andrés Laureano González Brito | Armed Forces Head of the Central Army of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces | New | Male |
| José Alberto González Sánchez | Cooperative President of the Agricultural Production Cooperative "Paquito González Cueto" in Baraguá, Ciego de Avila | Old | Male |
| José Miguel Gómez Del Vallín | Intelligence Head of the Military Counterintelligence Headquarters | New | Male |
| Ekaterina Gowen Dickinson | Mass Organization General Secretary of the Sancti Spíritus Municipal Committee of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba | New | Female |
| Ulises Guilarte De Nacimiento | Mass Organization General Secretary of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba | Old | Male |
| Daniuska Gutiérrez González | Cooperative Specialist in Livestock and Agricultural activities at the "Julio Díaz" Poultry Farm in Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba | New | Female |
| Federico Hernández Hernández | Provincial First Secretary of the Granma Provincial Party Committee | Old | Male |
| Gerardo Hernández Nordelo | Mass Organization National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution | New | Male |
| Yanet Hernández Pérez | Provincial Vice Governor of Havana Province | Old | Female |
| Liván Izquierdo Alonso | Provincial First Secretary of the Matanzas Provincial Party Committee | New | Male |
| Yaritcet Jiménez Argota | Research Institution Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Guantánamo | New | Female |
| Beatriz Johnson Urrutia | Provincial Governor of Santiago de Cuba Province | New | Female |
| Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera | National Assembly Administrative Leader of the National Assembly of People's Power | New | Female |
| Roberto Legrá Sotolongo | Armed Forces Second Chief of the General Staff of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces Chief of the Operations Directorate of the Revolutionary Armed Forces | New | Male |
| Alexis Lobaina Martínez de Valdivielso | Municipal Territorial Delegate of Gaviota Varadero in Matanzas | New | Male |
| Roberto López Hernández | Government Vice Minister of External Trade | Old | Male |
| Álvaro López Miera | Government Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces | Old | Male |
| Humberto Dionil López Suárez | State-owned Enterprise Director and Host of TV program Hacemos Cuba of the Television Information System of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television | New | Male |
| Mirian Marban González | Comptroller General Vice Comptroller General of the Republic | Old | Female |
| Ana María Mari Machado | National Assembly Vice President of the Council of State Vice President of the National Assembly of People's Power | Old | Female |
| Manuel Marrero Cruz | Government Prime Minister of the Republic | New | Male |
| Arelis Marrero Guerrero | Provincial Member of the Holguín Provincial Party Committee in charge of Consumption and Services, Tourism, Transport, Communications and Economy | Old | Female |
| Gladys Martínez Verdecia | Provincial First Secretary of the Artemisa Provincial Party Committee | New | Female |
| Dania Marzán Venero | State-owned Enterprise Legal Advisor at the "Rolando Ayud" Coffee Processing Company in Contramaestre, Santiago de Cuba | New | Female |
| Yusleidys Menéndez Seijo | State-owned Enterprise Director of the Tobacco Collection and Processing Company in Minas de Matahambre, Pinar del Río | Old | Female |
| Alexander Miranda Caballero | Research Institution General Director of the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque | New | Male |
| José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz | Central Party Apparatus Head of the Agri-food Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba | Old | Male |
| Roberto Tomás Morales Ojeda | Central Party Apparatus Secretary of Organization and Cadre Policy Department Policy | Old | Male |
| Susely Morfa González | Provincial Member of the Matanzas Provincial Party Committee in charge of Ideological Work | Old | Female |
| Anabel Naranjo Paz | Research Institution Professor at the University of Holguín "Oscar Lucero Moya" | Old | Female |
| Miriam Nicado García | Research Institution Rector of the University of Havana | Old | Female |
| Yailin Orta Rivera | Central Party Apparatus Director of Granma | New | Female |
| Rosario Del Pilar Pentón Díaz | Central Party Apparatus Rector of the Higher School of the Communist Party of Cuba "Ñico López" | Old | Female |
| Yamila Peña Ojeda | Office of the Attorney General Attorney General of the Republic | Old | Female |
| Agustín Peña Porres | Armed Forces Head of the Eastern Army of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces | New | Male |
| Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella | Government Minister of Communications | New | Male |
| Carlos Ricardo Pérez Díaz | State-owned Enterprise Director of the Surgical Clinical Hospital "Joaquín Albarrán" in Havana | New | Male |
| Rafael Pérez Fernández | Provincial First Secretary of the Guantánamo Provincial Party Committee | Old | Male |
| Manuel René Pérez Gallego | Provincial First Secretary of the Las Tunas Provincial Party Committee | New | Male |
| Deivy Pérez Martín | Provincial First Secretary of the Sancti Spíritus Provincial Party Committee | New | Female |
| Félix Duarte Ortega | Central Party Apparatus Head of the Industry, Construction, Tourism, Transportation and Services Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba | Old | Male |
| Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya | Government Minister of Science, Technology and Environment | Old | Female |
| Yaisel Osvaldo Pieter Terry | Mass Organization General Secretary of the National Committee of the Public Administration Workers' Union | Old | Male |
| Rogelio Polanco Fuentes | Central Party Apparatus Head of the Ideology Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba | Old | Male |
| José Angel Portal Miranda | Government Minister of Public Health | Old | Male |
| Joel Queipo Ruiz | Central Party Apparatus Head of the Economic Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba | Old | Male |
| Elier Ramírez Cañedo | Research Institution Researcher at the History Study Center on the Thought of Fidel Castro Ruz | New | Male |
| Omar Ramírez Mendoza | State-owned Enterprise Deputy Director of the National Electricity Union | Old | Male |
| Yamilé Ramos Cordero | Provincial Member of the Pinar del Río Provincial Party Committee in charge of economic activity, tourism, consumption and services | New | Female |
| Elisabet Reyes Velázquez | State-owned Enterprise Director of the North East Division of the Caribbean Store Chain Company | New | Male |
| José Amado Ricardo Guerra | Government Secretary of the Council of Ministers | Old | Male |
| Dayamí Rodríguez García | Government Team Director at the Ministry of Construction | Old | Female |
| Yudí Mercedes Rodríguez Hernández | Provincial First Secretary of the Villa Clara Provincial Party Committee | Old | Female |
| Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja | State-owned Enterprise President of the Grupo de Administración Empresarial SA (GAESA) | Old | Male |
| Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla | Government Minister of Foreign Affairs | Old | Male |
| Julio César Rodríguez Pimentel | Provincial First Secretary of the Pinar del Río Provincial Party Committee | Old | Male |
| Isdalis Rodríguez Rodríguez | Mass Organization Member of the National Secretariat of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba | Old | Female |
| Víctor Leonardo Rojo Ramos | Armed Forces Chief Political Section of the Central Army of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces | New | Male |
| Yoerky Sánchez Cuellar | Central Party Apparatus Director of Juventud Rebelde | Old | Male |
| Ariel Santana Santiesteban | Provincial First Secretary of the Camaguey Provincial Party Committee | Old | Male |
| Rafael Ramón Santiesteban Pozo | Mass Organization President of the National Association of Small Farmers | Old | Male |
| Ernesto Santiesteban Velázquez | Provincial First Secretary of the Holguin Provincial Party Committee | New | Male |
| Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca | Government Vice Prime Minister of the Republic | Old | Male |
| Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar | Provincial First Secretary of the Havana Provincial Party Committee | Old | Male |
| Carlos César Torres Páez | Research Institution Director of the Center for Management Studies, Local Development, Tourism and Cooperativism of the University of Pinar del Río "Hermanos Saiz Montes de Oca" | New | Male |
| Yury Valdés Balbín | Research Institution Deputy Director at the Carlos Juan Finlay Institute in Havana | New | Male |
| Salvador Valdés Mesa | Government Vice President of the Republic | Old | Male |
| Josefina de la Caridad Vidal Ferreiro | Government Ambassador of Cuba to Canada | Old | Female |
| Iliana Vielza Mejías | State-owned Enterprise Director of Supervision and Control at the Engineering Services Company of the Integrated Project Management (DIP TRASVASE) in Mayarí, Holguin | New | Female |
| Eduardo Walter Cueli | Provincial Director of the Provincial Directorate of Economics and Planning at Las Tunas | New | Male |
| José Alberto Yanes Díaz | Intelligence First Second Chief of the Political Directorate of the Ministry of Interior | New | Male |
| Yuleisy Ylisastiguí Oropesa | Municipal Nursing Advisor at the Municipal Health Directorate in Cardenas, Matanzas | New | Female |
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