Blas Roca Calderio

Blas Roca Calderio
Roca in 1979
President of the National Assembly of People's Power
In office 2 December 1976 – 1981
Vice President	Raúl Roa García
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Flavio Bravo Pardo
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Popular Socialist Party
In office April 1934 – 24 June 1961
Preceded by	Jorge Vivó
Succeeded by	Fidel Castro
Personal details
Born	24 July 1908 Manzanillo, Cuba
Died	25 April 1987 (aged 78) Havana, Cuba
Political party	Popular Socialist Party (1929–1961) 26th of July Movement (1953–1965) Communist Party of Cuba (1965–1981)
Profession	Lawyer

Blas Roca Calderio (24 July 1908 – 25 April 1987) was a Cuban politician and Marxist theorist who served as President of the National Assembly of People's Power in Cuba from 1976 to 1981. He was also head of the pre-1959 revolution Communist Party of Cuba for 28 years and editor of the communist newspaper Hoy. He was a signatory of the Cuban Constitution of 1940 and chaired the committee that wrote the country's first socialist constitution in 1976.