Events in the year 2017 in

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Incumbents

* First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba:

Raúl Castro Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (; ; born 3 June 1931) is a retired Cuban politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, succeedi ...

** Second Secretary:

José Ramón Machado Ventura José Ramón Machado Ventura, M.D. (born 26 October 1930) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2008 to 2013. With the election of Raúl Castro as President of Cuba on 24 Feb ...

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of the Council of State:

** First Vice President:

Miguel Díaz-Canel Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel y Bermúdez (; born 20 April 1960) also known as MADCB, is a politician and engineer who is the third first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. Díaz-Canel succeeds the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, making ...

Events

* 29 September –

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order to cut diplomats staff member in Cuba Embassy, due a mysterious attack.

Deaths

*7 January –

Carlos Fernández Gondín Carlos Fernández Gondín (1 July 1938 – 7 January 2017) was a Cuban politician. He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Cuba, and served as the country's Minister of the Interior from 2015 until his death. Career Fernández Gon ...

, politician (b. 1938). *26 January – Mario Quintero, basketball player (b. 1924). *12 June –

Fernando Martínez Heredia Fernando Ramón Martínez Heredia (21 January 1939 – 12 June 2017) was a prominent Cuban revolutionary thinker and politician. Martínez was a founding member of the Cuban Communist Party, and as a member of the July 26 Movement, he took part in ...

, politician (b. 1939) *26 November – Armando Hart, politician (b. 1930)."Armando Hart, historic Cuban Revolutionary figure, dies"
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References

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