Felipe Perez Roque

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Felipe Pérez Roque
(at the 2006 Summit of the Non-Aligned States, Photo: Marcello Casal Jr / ABr)

Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque (born March 28, 1965 in Havana ) was Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1999 to 2009 . When he took office, he was the youngest minister in the Cuban cabinet.

Felipe Pérez Roque became chairman of the Cuban Association of Secondary School Students (Federación de Estudiantes de la Enseñanza Media, FEEM) in 1982, which he represented at international youth meetings in 1983 in Nicaragua and in 1985 in the Soviet Union. As a student of electrical engineering at the “José Antonio Echeverría” University of Applied Sciences (ISPJAE) in Havana, he was elected President of the FEU Student Union, first at the faculty level and later at the university level . At national level, he was a board member from 1986, then from 1988 to 1990 chairman of the FEU and was also a member of the national board of the communist youth association Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas (UJC). Since 1986 he has been a member of the National Assembly of People's Power ( Spanish Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular ). In 1988 he completed his studies as an electrical engineer . Prior to his ministerial office, he was head of Fidel Castro's support group , of which he had been a member since 1991. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba ( Spanish Partido Comunista de Cuba , abbreviated PCC ) since 1991 , and since 1993 a member of the Council of State ( Spanish Consejo de Estado de Cuba ).

One of the highlights of his tenure as foreign minister was the organization of the summit of the non-aligned countries in Havana in September 2006 . In the international media, Felipe Pérez Roque, along with Carlos Lage, was one of the younger Cuban politicians who could play an important role in the country's political leadership if there was a generation change. In the Cuban population, however, he was seen as a representative of previous politics and not as a bearer of hope for change.

As part of a major cabinet reshuffle on March 2, 2009, Pérez Roque lost his office. His successor in the office of Foreign Minister is the previous Vice Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla . A day later he resigned from all political offices in the State Council, the Central Committee of the PCC and as a member of the Asamblea Nacional . Pérez Roque and Carlos Lage, who was also dismissed from the office of Executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers , acknowledged in similar letters to Raúl Castro , Head of State and Government , that they had made mistakes. Previously, the sick ex-head of state Fidel Castro remarked that some of the dismissed ministers had been poisoned by the "honey of power". "The enemy outside had certain illusions with them," he wrote, without giving any specific details. According to an article in the New York Times , during a house search of Conrado Hernández , Cuban citizen and sales representative of the Basque regional government, footage, possibly made for the Spanish secret service, was found, in which Lage and Pérez Roque, who regularly visit Hernández's farm, were found Parties met that made vulgar jokes about Fidel and Raúl Castro and Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura . A few months after their release, party members across the country were shown a three-hour video documentary that documents and explains the misconduct of Pérez Roque and Lage, as well as several other top officials who have been deposed. The Cuban media reported nothing about this.

Since the end of his political career, Pérez Roque has not appeared in public and is now working as an electrical engineer in his learned profession. He is married and has two children.

Awards

  • José Antonio Echeverría Medal, awarded by the State Council of the Republic of Cuba

literature

Web links

Commons : Felipe Pérez Roque  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiener Zeitung : Only after the election does it get exciting  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wienerzeitung.at  
  2. ↑ Associated Press / Yahoo.com : Cuba replaces top Cabinet ministers, March 2, 2009
  3. ^ Letter from Felipe Pérez Roque to Raúl Castro. Granma , March 3, 2009; archived from the original on March 6, 2009 ; Retrieved November 14, 2013 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Fidel Castro: Healthy Changes in the Council of Ministers of March 3, 2009
  5. ^ RIA Novosti Castro explains government reshuffle : Poisoned by the “honey of power” from March 4, 2009
  6. ↑ El País / Mauricio Vicent: Lage y Pérez Roque se autoinculpan en la prensa de sus "errores" (Spanish) of March 6, 2008
  7. ^ New York Times : In Cuba, Change Means More of the Same, With Control at the Top, April 10, 2009
  8. ↑ Marc Frank: Cuba's Raúl conducts purge by video ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Financial Times, July 15, 2009, accessed April 28, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ft.com
  9. ↑ Dalia Acosta: Video Sheds Light on Raúl Castro's Strict Approach ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: IPS news of June 29, 2009, accessed April 28, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ipsnews.net
  10. ↑ Cuba: excarcelado primo de ex vicepresidente Lage (Spanish) AFP of March 25, 2011, accessed on April 28, 2011
  11. ↑ Biografía del ministro, ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cubagob.cu archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed May 6, 2014 (Spanish)
  12. ↑ Los candidatos del pueblo, in: Granma.cu , accessed on May 6, 2014 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Pérez Roque, Felipe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pérez Roque, Felipe Ramón (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba