By Benjamin Noria
HAVANA TIMES – A news item in the official Granma newspaper dated February 2, 2024, informed that Alejandro Gil, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning, was removed from his posts. In his place Joaquín Alonso Vázquez, the current President of the Central Bank of Cuba was appointed.
The game pretending to make people believe that Alejandro Gil is to blame for the failure of the 2021 economic reforms and all the vain strategies that the Cuban government has employed to try to save the economy, is nothing more than another fanciful, creative and cunning story of the government’s storytellers.
Today, Cuba is a country overshadowed by a long-lasting dictatorship and a deep economic crisis.
In the current phase, the Cuban government has transferred public monopolies to private monopolies to favor groups of accomplices and front people of the regime’s leaders. They have emptied the State’s c
