Marino Murillo

Marino Alberto Murillo Jorge (born February 19, 1961 ) is a Cuban politician and economist , member of the Politburo of the PCC , Vice President of the Council of Ministers and a member of the State Council .

Life

Murillo first studied economics (degree: Licenciatura ) and later completed a cadre training at the Colegio de Defensa Nacional (CODEN) military college. In contrast to other, especially the majority of the post-revolutionary generation of leaders promoted by Fidel Castro , he did not have a classic party career in the youth association UJC and the various levels of the PCC , but as an economic expert belongs to the politician type of technocrats favored by Raúl Castro . Murillo had over twenty years of experience in government business management before he was appointed to the first line of Cuban politics: Among other things, he was Director of the Department of Accounting and Budget in the Ministry of the Food Industry, Vice Minister of Economics and Planning and from 2006 to 2006 2009 Minister for Internal Trade.

When, in the course of the change in leadership from Fidel to Raúl Castro, the latter gradually filled almost all cabinet positions, Murillo succeeded the then Minister of Economics and Planning, José Luis Rodríguez García, in March 2009. At this point in time, the situation of the Cuban economy and public finances was already severely affected after the particularly severe tropical cyclones of the previous autumn and the global economic crisis. The following December, Murillo was appointed to the 31-member State Council. Like Prime Minister Raúl Castro, Murillo openly addressed the current and structural problems of the Cuban economy in front of Cuban and international media and mentioned, for example, the need for consumption restrictions. During his tenure as Minister of Economics, numerous liberalization measures were carried out, all of which resulted in a strengthening of the private sector despite high taxation and relief of the state sector. During the session of the biannual parliament in mid-December 2010, Murillo explained to the MPs (and the Cuban public) in detail on several days the ideas of the Cuban leadership regarding the economic policy changes, with the demonstrative support of the President, and thus finally rose to become the generally perceived representative of the new one Economic course.

In March 2011, he was relieved of his ministerial post by the State Council, which his deputy Adel Yzquierdo Rodríguez, took over, and was instead given the role of economic policy coordinator above the Ministry of Economic Affairs. His first task was to prepare the content of the VI. Party congress of the PCC (April 2011) as well as the review of the practical implementation of the resolutions passed there on the reforms of the Cuban economic model officially known as "adjustment measures". He kept his post as Vice President of the Council of Ministers. At the party congress he was elected to the Politburo, which had been reduced from 24 to 15 members.

As the person primarily responsible for the restructuring of the Cuban economic system, which was declared a question of fate by President Raúl Castro, Murillo plays a central role within the Cuban government. In March 2012 Murillo made it clear to international media representatives that there would only be "updates of the economic model" in Cuba, but no political reforms, after Pope Benedict XVI. during his visit to Cuba suggested an opening up of the system and shortly beforehand had described the Marxist ideology as being out of date for solving current problems.

His daughter, Glenda Murillo Díaz, who was 24 at the time, fled to the USA via Mexico in August 2012 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reform efforts: Capitalism light in Cuba In: Tagesspiegel of September 7, 2010, accessed on April 28, 2011
2. ↑ Bert Hoffmann: Cuba: On the Way to Market Socialism? ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 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. (PDF; 436 kB) GIGA Focus Latin America 9/2010 , accessed on April 28, 2011 
3. ↑ Marc Frank: Chronology: Raul Castro's road to reform in Cuba (English) Reuters of April 13, 2011, accessed on April 28, 2011
4. ↑ Ministro Murillo ¿El rey de las reformas? ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 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. (Spanish) In: Gaceta de Cuba, December 23, 2010, accessed April 28, 2011 
5. ↑ Official announcement ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 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: Granma of March 28, 2011, accessed April 28, 2011 
6. ^ Change in the style of Cuba's communists Interview with Uwe Optenhögel, In: NZZ of April 21, 2011, accessed on April 28, 2011
7. ↑ Catholic Church: Pope Benedict meets Raúl Castro in Cuba in: Berliner Morgenpost from March 28, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2012
8. ↑ Juan O. Tamayo: Deserta hija del vicepresidente cubano Marino Murillo , El Nuevo Herald of August 27, 2012

Web links

• Agence France Presse : El "mecánico" de las reformas en Cuba In: Diario de Yucatán (Mexico) of April 24, 2011, accessed via Derechos Humanos en Cuba on September 25, 2012 (Spanish)
• Brian Latell: Raul's Economic Czar In: The Latell Report , May 2011, accessed June 17, 2011
• Andrea Rodríguez (Associated Press): Cuba's economic czar leads new political generation that stands to inherit power from Castros In: Yahoo! Finance from June 30, 2011, accessed September 25, 2012 (English), Spanish version here
• Juan Carlos Salazar (dpa): Un hombre “meticuloso con los números” para impulsar las reformas in: El País (Costa Rica) from August 5, 2011, accessed on August 24, 2011 (Spanish)
• Marino Murillo, el hombre al frente de los ajustes para la supervivencia del régimen in: Diario de Cuba of July 2, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2012 (Spanish)