Two More Long-Serving Officials Dismissed in Cuba

[magbana]

"Two More Long-Serving Officials Dismissed in Cuba

HAVANA – Vice Presidents Pedro Miret and Osmany Cienfuegos, veterans of the 1959 revolution, were dismissed as part of the Cabinet overhaul carried out early this month by president Raul Castro, Cuba’s official gazette said Tuesday.

The pair of firings were not announced in the March 2 communique regarding the communist government’s biggest shakeup in years.

Miret and Cienfuegos were two of Cuba’s six vice presidents, but they had kept a low profile for many years and did not often appear in public.

The decree issued Tuesday does not explain the motives for their dismissals and restricts itself to saying that the Council of State decided to “release them” from their posts.

The firings of Miret and Cienfuegos comes three weeks after Raul Castro announced the dismissals of Vice President Carlos Lage and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.

A few days after they were booted, Lage and Perez Roque acknowledged that they had committed unspecified “mistakes” and resigned all their other state and Communist Party posts in almost identical letters published by the official press.

Raul Castro became Cuba’s president in February 2008, formally succeeding older brother Fidel, who had been sidelined by illness since July 2006.

Cienfuegos, 78 and the brother of guerrilla commander Camilo Cienfuegos, who died some 50 years ago in a plane crash, served as tourism minister in past decades.

Miret, 82, accompanied Fidel Castro, in the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, and later was on the expedition aboard the yacht Granma, which brought the Castro brothers back to Cuba from Mexico in 1956. EFE

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[Bacchus39]

1. wow, the leadership of Cuba is ancient!!!

time for some new blood.

[EFerrari]

2. I wonder if Raul has a Raul. n/t