On February 24, 2008 (Calendar January 18, 2008), Raúl Castro was elected the new Supreme Leader of Cuba. The National People's Congress of Cuba elected Raúl Castro as Chairman of the State Committee. José Ramón Machado Bentoya was elected Vice-Chairman of the State Committee of Cuba on the website of the Grammar newspaper on February 19, 2008 in Spanish and published a statement to the National People's Congress of Cuba, consisting of 614 representatives, saying that he no longer sought to continue as the Supreme Leader of Cuba. The Chairman of the State Committee was the head of the state and government of Cuba for 46 years. Fidel Castro, 76 years old, was Brother Raúl Castro, brother of Raúl Castro, who served as Chairman of the State Committee for most of the decades of 2006, and has been transferred to the Fidel