The once powerful Coordination and Support Staff's offices were located in the Palace of the Revolution (Palacio de la Revolución). Image: Panoramio
“Sources of utmost credibility” have informed Penúltimos Días blog that at the beginning of the week, Fidel Castro’s Grupo de Coordinación y Apoyo al Comandante en Jefe (Coordination and Support Staff — GCA) was dissolved.
According to the blog, several members of the Staff have been reassigned to new posts within the government.
GCA was a parallel structure of government that has been, from its inception, Fidel Castro’s executive staff implementing and executing his policy initiatives for the country.
Most notable Staff members have been recently sacked Carlos Lage (Vice-President) and Felipe Pérez Roque (Foreign Minister), whom respectively served as chief.
For further research on the GCA’s historical and political development, see my paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE).
Migrating weblog and posting inactitivty
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The lack of posts the last couple of weeks is due in part to the migration of this weblog to a new hosting company. It has been a frustrating process, to say the least, as numerous files have been corrupted in the migration causing posts/pages to display incomplete text and images.
Thank you for your patience, and rest assured, new posts will be published soon.