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Cuba Appoints New Minister of Economy and Planning.

CUBA, March 26, 2011.- An official note published on Saturday by Cuban newspapers and other media outlets announced that the Council of State, as proposed by its President, decided to relieve Marino Murillo from his post as head of the Ministry of Economy and Planning and appoint Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez as the new minister of this sector.

Rodriguez, 65, had been the First Deputy Minister of Economy and Planning since 2009. He had also headed the Division of Economy and Planning of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) and held top administrative posts in important companies.

The text adds that Murillo, as the Coordinator of the Economic Policy Commission of the upcoming Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), “will be in charge of supervising the implementation of measures associated with the updating of the Cuban economic model, a responsibility on which he will have to concentrate his work after the approval of the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and the Revolution during the PCC Congress in April.”

According to the note, Murillo will keep his post as Vice President in the Council of Ministers and oversee the Ministry of Economy and Planning and other productive sectors. (Cubaminrex-AIN)

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