Raúl Cas­tro turned 95 on Wednes­day, a land­mark birth­day for a man still help­ing lead one of the last com­mu­nist coun­tries in the world.

His name and face be­came syn­ony­mous with the 1959 rev­o­lu­tion led by his broth­er, Fi­del Cas­tro. Decades af­ter the tri­umphant rev­o­lu­tion, Fi­del Cas­tro stepped down, and Raúl Cas­tro served as Cu­ba’s pres­i­dent for 12 years.

He for­mal­ly re­tired from pol­i­tics in April 2021 but still serves as gen­er­al of Cu­ba’s Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Armed Forces, has a seat in the Na­tion­al As­sem­bly and is con­sid­ered to play a cen­tral role in ris­ing ten­sions with the U.S., which re­cent­ly in­dict­ed him.