Cuba Formally Discloses Departure of 2 Vice Presidents

March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Cuba made a formal disclosure that two of the country's vice presidents were removed from their posts in a restructuring of President Raul Castro's cabinet announced on March 2, the Associated Press reported.

Vice presidents Osmany Cienfuegos and Pedro Miret, who participated in the 1959 Cuban Revolution, weren't included in a document released at the time that named the officials who left Castro's government, the newswire said. The two were also absent from a photo of the Council of Vice Presidents published on March 3 in Granma, the state-owned newspaper, AP said.

Former Vice President Carlos Lage and ex-Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque were among a dozen officials who left their posts March 2, AP said.