Cuban Revolution
This decision comes after Fidel Castro, who ruled as President ever since rising to power in 1959 with the 
, wrote a letter last Tuesday saying that he would not "aspire to or accept... the positions of President of Council of State and Commander in Chief" in today's election for a new President, who also becomes the leader of the Council of State and the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. According to Voice of America, he will still remain First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the only official party in the Communist state.
Raúl Castro chosen as new President of Cuba