TRANSPORT MINISTER OUSTED

Cuba’s main government advisory body recommended the second ministerial cabinet change since Raul Castro assumed the interim presidency almost three months ago from his brother Fidel, who’s recovering from intestinal surgery, EFE said.The Politburo, a government advisory group presided by Raul Castro, recommended the ouster of Carlos Manuel Pazo as transport minister, EFE said, citing a statement in Communist Party’s official newspaper Granma. Jorge Luis Sierra will replace Pazo, EFE said. The move wasn’t reported on Granma’s Web site.

Cuba’s 31-member Council of State approved the appointment, Efe said. Public transportation was one of the Cuban industries that shrank most with the end of subsidies related to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Cuba has increased commercial ties with China in recent years to replace its aging vehicle, train and fluvial technologies, EFE said.

On Aug. 31, the Politburo appointed Ramiro Valdez y Menendez, 74, one of the leaders of the 1959 ouster of President Fulgencio Batista, as new communications and computers minister in replacement of Ignacio Gonzalez Plana. Fidel Castro, 80, Cuba’s leader since Jan. 1, 1959, underwent surgery and gave his brother Raul, 75, temporary control of the government on July 31.

Source: Bloomberg; EFE

Jorge Luis Sierra is the new Transportation Minister of Cuba, a change decided due to the importantance of the sector, Cuban government officials announced Friday.

Sierra, member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), substites Carlos Manuel Pazo. Before his appointment he was in the Secretariat of the political organization,

The decision to replace Pazo was adopted by the Council of State, on a proposal of the PCC Political Board (Poliburo) and attending the importance of the sector, the daily states.

Cuba is currently boosting a plan to revive transportation, and has carried out important investments in this first phase like the purchase of over one thousand Chinese buses, locomotives and other transportation means and parts.

Source: PL

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