Cuban economy minister Alejandro Gil was fired

Cuba's Council of State sacked the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economy and Planning. Alejandro Gil FernandezHours after postponing the application of an unpopular economic package announced at the end of December.

Accordingly A hint Published through Official Gazette GranmaThe decision was taken on the proposal of Miguel Díaz-Canel and with the prior approval of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).

Transfer of Officer, Joaquin Alonso Vásquez was appointed Minister of Economy and PlanningCurrent Minister-President of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC).

The 60-year-old officer holds a degree in finance and credit and a master's degree in business administration and management. Granma. He has held positions at the National Bank of Cuba, Popular Savings Bank, CUBALSE Trade and Services Corporation and CADECA.

Alonso Vasquez's position will be occupied Juana Lilia Delgado PortalHe was Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Economy and Planning and served in the Standing Committee on Implementation and Development.

Gill was not alone in the impeachment. The PCC also rejected Elba Rosa Perez MontoyaHe has already served as Science, Technology and Environment Minister for 11 years Manuel Sobrino Martínez, current Minister of Food.

Pérez Montoya was replaced by Doctor of Science Eduardo Martínez Díaz, current president of the BioCubaFarma business group, while Sobrino Martínez was succeeded by Alberto López Díaz, current governor of Villa Clara province.

Gill's fall comes after a string of dire economic news, including the acknowledgment of the failure of a job-ordering exercise in January 2021; The collapse of the economy and the announced package failure at the end of 2023, which the government is selling, without success, as “measures to correct the distortions”. Already critical inflation.

Last September, Cuban economist Rafael Cruz anticipates Gil's downfall for Diario de Cuba. In an opinion piece, he warned that one of the minister's last duties would be to “absorb the public's displeasure at the declaration that things will continue to deteriorate in Cuba.”

“Jill is the minister of planning work, designed inflation, 120 pesos to the dollar, now costs 300 for monetary consolidation of MLC stores.Blackouts, hunger, the flight of hundreds of thousands of Cubans…”, Cruz listed.

“His lies regarding MLC stores are archaic: his '2023 will be the best year' and the crude way he presents the national accounts with growth in the National Assembly does not allow for the subtlety of the failure people are experiencing. Minister Gill who destroyed self-employment to build what is left as a 'private' sector at the will of the government.

“In short, Gill's record as minister does not merit impeachment, but rather a trial for genocide.”But when Cuba comes to Nuremberg, what we have is the revolution devouring one of its most incompetent children, or one of its most loyal children, if we take into account how well it has done the task of not doing what is best for the economy. , but what is best for the dictatorship, hide it, package it and sell it as positive changes,” he said.