Cuba replaces 2 Cabinet members
The Associated Press
HAVANA --
The Cuban government has replaced its justice minister and the head of
the National Institute of Water Resources.
The Council of State, Cuba's executive body headed by the ailing Fidel
Castro, announced in a statement read on state television Friday that
Justice Minister Roberto Diaz Sotolongo will be replaced by the vice
minister, Maria Esther Reus.
Jorge Aspiolea Roig, president of the water resources institute, will be
replaced by Rene Mesa, a construction vice minister. The position is
also in the Cabinet.
The statement did not say why the two Cabinet members were being
replaced, but said they would be assigned other jobs.
With Friday's announcement, four Cabinet level officials have been
replaced since Castro temporarily ceded his functions to his brother
Raul, the defense minister, in late July after undergoing intestinal
surgery.
The Council of State replaced its transportation minister in October
with Jorge Luis Sierra, a top Communist Party leader. It named Ramiro
Valdes, a historic revolutionary commander and former interior minister,
the new minister of information science and communications in late August.
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