Ambassador to El Salvador
Raul Castro was appointed U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Castro had met and befriended Johnson years earlier when Johnson had made a stop in Tucson, Arizona, while campaigning as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate during the 1960 election. In 1968, President Johnson and his family stayed with the Castros at the ambassadorial residence in San Salvador while Johnson attended the Central American Summit Conference. During his time in El Salvador, Castro developed close ties with Salvadoran President Julio Adalberto Rivera and he encouraged the Salvadoran president’s efforts at modernizing the country.
