Alexandre Corona joins the long list of senior Cuban officials who leave their duties in 2024, since the dismissal of Alejandro Gil Fernández as Minister of Economy
14ymedio, Madrid, 24 April 2024 — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel approved on Wednesday the dismissal of the governor of Cienfuegos, Alexandre Corona, who requested his resignation “upon recognizing mistakes made in the exercise of his responsibility.” According to a brief statement made public by the official press, which does not detail what the mistakes are, he will be replaced until a new governor is elected by Yolexis Rodríguez Armada, who was up to now a provincial deputy governor.
It is a case, therefore, different from the recent “movements of cadres,” such as the governors of Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Matanzas, Villa Clara and Ciego de Ávila. All of them were “liberated” from their posts to perform “new tasks,” according to the prose used by the regime in these circumstances. In recent weeks, the president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), a union organization in the orbit of the Communist Party of Cuba, was also replaced.
Corona joins, of course, the long list of senior Cuban officials who leave their duties in 2024, since the dismissal of Alejandro Gil Fernández as Minister of Economy.
The expression used to communicate Corona’s departure is very similar to the one
