Lázaro Expósito

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Lázaro Expósito

Lázaro Fernando Expósito Canto (* 1955 in Caibarién , then Las Villas province ) is a Cuban politician and member of the PCC Central Committee and first secretary of the party in the province of Santiago de Cuba .

Life

He began his career as a teacher at the primary school "Conrado Benítez" in his hometown of Caibarién ( province of Villa Clara ) and soon rose to the position of headmaster. As a politician, he served first as deputy, later as acting mayor ("chairman of the local people's power") as well as a delegate of the provincial assembly and from 1994 as first party secretary of the provincial capital Santa Clara . Since 1993 he has been a member of the Cuban Parliament ("National Assembly") , which meets twice a year, for the Manzanillo constituency ( Granma Province ).

In 2001, Expósito was appointed First Party Secretary of Granma Province, which is the highest level of responsibility at the provincial level. In 2009 he moved to the larger and more important province of Santiago de Cuba in the same function, which he has headed ever since. On the VI. In April 2011 in Havana at the Congress of the Communist Party, he was re-elected as a member of the 115-member Central Committee of the party, to which he had been a member since the Fifth Party Congress in 1997.

politics

Compared to other Cuban party functionaries, Lázaro Expósito enjoys a high level of awareness and extremely unusual popularity among the people he governs. Followers have even dedicated a fan page to him on Facebook with the title “Let's clone Lázaro Expósito”. He is considered to be extremely hands-on and hardworking, as well as open to the needs of the population, and his family relationships with the government are useful to him to implement his projects: Lázaro Expósito, through his marriage to Raúl Castro's daughter Nilsa, belongs to the circle of people in Cuba since the victory of the 1959 revolution uninterruptedly ruling ruling family. The strictly state-controlled Cuban media do not mention any private details from the Castro family, but report extensively on the provincial chief's appearances and achievements - for example on unannounced inspection visits to state-owned companies that are supposed to prove his personal commitment to the widespread corruption.

Under Expósito's leadership, numerous sales outlets for groceries and other everyday goods were opened - initially in the province of Granma, and since 2009 also in Santiago - in which Cuban pesos are discounted by around 20 percent compared to the official prices in the foreign exchange shops can be paid. In addition to such state-run businesses and restaurants, he also allowed private sales stands for agricultural products on a trial basis in the province of Santiago, before this successful experiment later led to legalization at the national level. One of the major infrastructure projects that he has been responsible for is the rehabilitation of the drinking water supply in the provincial capital, Santiago de Cuba , and thus overcoming one of the most pressing grievances in everyday life for large sections of the population.

The financing of these popular measures to raise the standard of living in a part of Cuba that has long been neglected compared to the capital Havana was only possible through generous support from the central government led by Expósito's father-in-law, President Raúl Castro. The success of Expósitos promoted with the help of this silent privilege and his prominent representation in the state media made him known at home and abroad. After Castro at the beginning of the VI. At the party congresses that had announced an imminent replacement of the historical leadership generation and the need for younger party members to move up, foreign media named Expósito as a possible candidate for a higher post in the party hierarchy. At the party congress, however, he was not nominated for the Politburo, which was reduced from 24 to 15 members.

Awards

On May 1, 2016, President Raúl Castro, on behalf of the State Council, presented him with the “Hero of Labor of the Republic of Cuba” award.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miembros del office Político, el Secretariado y el Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Spanish) CubaDebate, April 19th 2011, accessed 20 April 2011
  2. ↑ Miembros del Comité Central (Spanish) Cipre, (o. D.), accessed 20 April 2011
  3. ↑ Erasmo Calzadilla: Let's NOT Clone Lazaro Exposito (English), Havana Times , June 24, 2010, accessed on April 20, 2011 (original Spanish version here )
  4. ↑ Fernando Ravsberg: Clonemos a Expósito (Spanish), BBC Mundo, June 10, 2010, accessed April 20, 2011
  5. ↑ Facebook group "Clonemos a Lázaro Expósito" (Spanish), Facebook, accessed 20 April 2011
  6. ↑ La clausura del Congreso (Spanish), Penúltimos Días, April 19, 2011, accessed April 20, 2011
  7. ↑ YouTube: Inspección de alimentos Santiago (Spanish) Excerpt from a news report on the provincial television of Santiago de Cuba ( undated ), accessed on April 20, 2011
  8. ↑ Yoanis Hernández: Bayamo: ciudad cubana del buen gusto (Spanish), May 12th 2009, accessed 20 April 2011
  9. ↑ Will Weissert: One town's experiment gives Cuban peso value (English), Associated Press, October 8, 2008, accessed April 20, 2011 (Spanish version here )
  10. ↑ Marc Frank: Cuba slow to ease its grip on shopkeepers  ( page no longer available , 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. (English) Financial Times , February 10, 2010, accessed April 24, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ft.com  
  11. ↑ In Cuba, peso makes a comeback, pleasing customers , Reuters, February 1, 2010
  12. ↑ Cuba.- El Gobierno autoriza la venta privada de alimentos en el centro y el este del país para impulsar la economía (Spanish), Finanzas.com, January 29, 2010, accessed April 20, 2011
  13. ^ Marc Frank: Cubans Thank God and Communist Party for Small Favors (English) ABC News, February 2, 2010, accessed April 20, 2011
  14. ↑ Convocan a revertir las deficiencias ( Memento of September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), in: Granma of July 21, 2010 (Spanish)
  15. ↑ Fernando García: El hombre que iluminó Santiago (Spanish) La Vanguardia, March 8, 2010, accessed April 20, 2011
  16. ↑ Regina Cano: Un dirigente donde no hay otro? (Spanish) Havana Times, June 3, 2010, accessed April 20, 2011 (English version here )
  17. ^ Matthias Rüb: Fidel Castro resigns from party leadership from FAZ, April 19, 2011, accessed on April 20, 2011
  18. ↑ Fabian Löhe: This is how the communists want to make Cuba afloat ( Memento from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland, April 20, 2011, accessed on April 20, 2011
  19. ↑ Paul Haven: Fidel Castro gives brother key vote of confidence , in: NBC News of April 17, 2011, accessed September 25, 2012
  20. ↑ Miembros del office Político, el Secretariado y el Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Spanish) CubaDebate, April 19th 2011, accessed 20 April 2011
  21. ^ Condecora Raúl Castro a Lázaro Expósito como Héroe del Trabajo de la República de Cuba. In: Sierra Mastra of May 2, 2016 (Spanish)

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personal data
SURNAME Expósito, Lázaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Expósito Canto, Lázaro Fernando; Expósito Canto, Lázaro; Lázaro Expósito Canto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Caibarién