title: 2017 in Cuba
text: # 2017 in Cuba
  
  Events in the year 2017 in Cuba.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba: Raúl Castro
     * Second Secretary: José Ramón Machado Ventura
  * President of the Council of State: Raúl Castro
     * First Vice President: Miguel Díaz-Canel
  
  ## Events
  
  * 29 September – US government order to cut diplomats staff member in Cuba Embassy, due a mysterious attack.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 7 January – Carlos Fernández Gondín, politician (b. 1938).
  * 26 January – Mario Quintero, basketball player (b. 1924).
  * 12 June – Fernando Martínez Heredia, politician (b. 1939)
  * 26 November – Armando Hart, politician (b. 1930).
  