President Díaz-Canel says that private businesses in Cuba “do not have” the Government’s confidence
14ymedio, Havana, July 20, 2024 — The General Controller of Cuba, Gladys Bejerano, in office for 14 years, was removed from her position, as confirmed by Miguel Díaz-Canel this Friday. The president, defending a policy of “severity,” unexpectedly announced the dismissal in a brief speech in Parliament, which held its ordinary session this week.
Díaz-Canel stated that, after an “analysis” by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, the change was determined as part of the “normal process of renewal of the cadres,” a euphemism to which the regime resorts when it removes a high official. In addition, the appointment of Mirian Barbán González, 48, until now the first Vice Comptroller General, as the replacement for Bejerano, 78, was approved.
“Her ethical and revolutionary behavior is an example of a communist militant for everyone,” Díaz-Canel said about Bejerano. The change takes place in the middle of a government campaign against corruption, whose most public and controversial chapter was that of the former head of Economy, Alejandro Gil, dismissed in February and whose whereabouts are currently unknown.
About Gil, Bejerano said last May in an interview with EFE, that the case felt like a “betrayal” and that the deep economic crisis in which the Island is immersed has increased corruption, because “there is a greater need” and a shortage of “everything,” although this “is not a justification.”
In recent months there has also been an unusual number of changes of senior political positions in the country
Gladys Bejerano is the last high official to be rem