translated from Spanish: Manuel Marrero is Cuba’s new prime minister

The Cuban Parliament on Saturday (21.12.2019) appointed Manuel Marrero as prime minister of the country. The charge had been removed in 1976, but was replaced in the Constitution that the island approved in April this year. Marrero, until now Minister of Tourism, had been nominated for office by President Miguel Díaz-Canel and had the unanimous support of the deputies.
The politician, 56 years old and trained architect, has been in the Tourism portfolio for 16 years, and was selected to assume that responsibility for Fidel Castro, the newspaper Granma reports. Marrero, who is also a deputy, began his career from the base, slogans the same newspaper, which points out that he held management positions in hotels in Varadero.
Marrero’s name was not among the favorites of the experts to take the place. President Díaz-Canel stressed, in making his proposal to Parliament, the “honesty, ability to work and fidelity to the Party and the Revolution”, together with the “rich negotiating experience with foreign counterparts” of the new prime minister. The representative stressed that Marrero’s name had been approved by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party’s Central Committee.
Generational change
Díaz-Canel assured that, in order to choose the right person for the position, an exhaustive analysis was carried out, in which the necessary renewal to be shown by the Cuban leadership was assessed, as well as the search for stability that allows to fulfill its functions at times especially complex for the island. Let us remember that the country is politically confronted with the United States.
The parliamentary session also featured former president and leader of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC, sole legal), Raúl Castro, who is still a deputy for the province of Santiago. As deputy prime ministers, also on Diaz-Canel’s proposal, they were appointed the historic commander of the Ramiro Valdés Revolution (87 years); the so far vice-presidents of the Council of Ministers Roberto Morales, Inés María Chapman, Ricardo Cabrisas and José Luis Tapia, and the current Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil.

Original source in Spanish