The following is the 8th Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, which sat from 2013 to 2018.

Members of the 8th Council of State (2013–2018)

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President of Cuba The president of Cuba ( es, Presidente de Cuba), officially the president of the Republic of Cuba ( es, Presidente de la República de Cuba), is the head of state of Cuba. The office in its current form was established under the Constitution of ...

, , Raúl Castro , - , First Vice President , , Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez , - , Vice President , , Gladys María Bejerano Portela , - , Vice President , , Mercedes López Acea , - , Vice President , ,

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 F ...

, - , Vice President , , Ramiro Valdés Menéndez , - , Vice President , ,

Salvador Valdés Mesa Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa (born 13 June 1945) is a Cuban politicianDamien CaveRaúl Castro Says His Current Term as President of Cuba Will Be His Last ''The New York Times'', 24 February 2013 and former trade union leader. He is the First Vi ...

, - , Secretary , , Homero Acosta Álvarez , - , Refinery Manager at Sancti Spiritus , , Lester Alain Alemán Hurtado , - , General Secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women, , Teresa Amarelle Boué , - , Director of Pharmaceuticals in Camagüey , , Yaramis Armenteros Medina , - , President of the Union of Writers and Artists , , Miguel Barnet Lanza , - , President of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources , , Inés María Chapman Waugh , - , Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces , , Army Corps General Leopoldo Cintra Frías , - , Principal Mechanical Industrial Company "September 2" of Matanzas , , Ileana Amparo Flores Morales , - , Director of the National Wildlife , , Guillermo García Frías , - , President of the

National Association of Small Farmers The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) ( es, Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños) is a cooperative federation dedicated to promoting the interests of small farmers in Cuba. ANAP has over 300,000 members. History ANAP was for ...

, , Rafael Ramón Santiesteban Pozo , - , President of the Provincial Assembly and the Government of Matanzas , , Tania León Silveira , - , First Vice President of the Council of Ministers
Chief of the General Staff of the

Revolutionary Armed Forces A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates a revolution. The term ''revolutionary'' can also be used as an adjective, to refer to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor. ...

, , Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera , - , Second Secretary of the

Workers' Central Union of Cuba The Workers Central Union of Cuba ( es, Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, CTC) is the trade union federation in Cuba. It originated as the ''Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba'' (Confederation of Cuban Workers) in 1939 and changed its name to t ...

, , Carmen Rosa López Rodríguez , - , Unknown , , Martha del Carmen Mesa Valenciano , - , National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution , , Carlos Rafael Miranda Martínez , - , Rector of the University of Computer Sciences , , Miriam Nicado García , - , Director of the Center for Medical Genetics of Pinar del Rio , ,

Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín was the Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment in Cuba. Her role in government includes raising awareness of environmental issues amongst Cubans. Career Simeón took on the position of Minister of the E ...

, - , Director of the Research Institute of Tropical Viandas , , Sergio Rodríguez Morales , - , Vice President of the

Council of Ministers A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/ shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or nati ...

, , Marino Alberto Murillo Jorge , - ,

Minister of Foreign Affairs A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between co ...

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Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla (born 22 January 1958) is a Cuban diplomat and politician. He is a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, and has served as Cuba's List of Foreign Ministers of Cuba, Minister of Foreign Affairs ...

, - , Municipal Delegate Palmira, Cienfuegos , , Lyz Belkis Rosabal Ponce , - , Vice President of the Council of Ministers
Minister of Economy and Planning , , Adel Yzquierdo Rodríguez Government of Cuba