First Vice President of the Council of State Jose Ramon Machado ventura of Cuba

Cuban state media reports: Jose Ramón Machado Ventura, vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, traveled to Paraguay at the head of an official Cuban delegation that is to attend the investiture of the country’s new president-elect, Fernando Lugo, which takes place Friday in Asunción.

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Machado Ventura is an old army war medic, a doctor who spent years at Raúl Castros side on the battlefield and then decades in politics.

While Raúl Castro works the phones, Machado Ventura has been working the cameras.

Machado Ventura was in no ones predictions.

Jose Ramon Machado Ventura is largely seen as Raul Castros right-hand man.

You can see Lages face when they mentioned that Machado Ventura was the new Vice President.

Machado Ventura said the EU mega-block is still in time to take responsibility and contribute to the building of a fairer and more just world.

June 2: Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura leads Cuba's delegation at the opening of a conference in Rome on the global food crisis.

June 3: Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met with the presidents of Brazil and Iran, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, respectively.

During the talks, Machado Ventura was accompanied by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and by Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, head of the Foreign Relations Department at the Central Committee of Cubas Communist Party.

June 4: Cubas First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met with the Vaticans Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, as part of his working agenda in Rome, where he is attending the FAO Summit on Food Security.

Machado Ventura is considered a representative of the Cuban Communist Party's hardline faction and decades-long Politburo member, and observers met his selection as first vice president of the Council of State as a sign of "immobilism," even as Cuba enters a new era Fidel Castro as head of state.

A doctor born in the central Cuban town of San Antonio de las Vueltas, Machado Ventura joined the revolution as early as Fulgencio Batista's coup d'etat in March 1952.

Since the triumph of the revolution on January 1, 1959, Machado Ventura has held several posts including presidential assistant and public health minister.

Machado Ventura has been close to Raúl since the 1950s.

Jose Ramon Machado Ventura is the Secretariat of Cuba's Political Bureau and is one of Cuba's Vice Presidents.

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Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura met on Thursday with a delegation from the Pan American Health Organization ''PAHO'' headed by its director, Dr.

s 63rd General Assembly, Machado Ventura said Washington\'s manipulative trade policy stifled growth around the world.

A physician who helped organize the revolutionary government's Health Ministry, Machado Ventura has been a leading behind-the-scenes force in Cuba's government for more than four decades since he joined the Castro brothers' uprising against dictator Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s.

Machado Ventura was born in San Antonio de las Vueltas, in central Cuba, on Oct 26, 1930.

Machado Ventura was born in San Antonio de las Vueltas, Las Villas.

Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura said the US.

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