HAVANA — Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution.
The 89-year-old Castro made the announcement Friday in a speech at the opening of the Eighth Congress of the ruling party, the only one allowed on the island.
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