Ulises Rosales del Toro

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Ulises Rosales del Toro (born March 8, 1942 in Oriente ) is a Cuban major general and politician of the Communist Party of Cuba , who has been Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers since 2009 .

Life

Rosales del Toro joined the July 26th Movement led by Fidel Castro after attending school . In the following years he took part in the revolution against the dictatorial president Fulgencio Batista . After Batista's fall in 1959, he joined the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR) as an officer and trained at the General Staff School.

Rosales del Toro, who in 1962 became a member of the United Party of Socialist Revolution ( Partido Unido de la Revolución Socialista de Cuba ) and in 1965 the resulting Communist Party, was appointed major in the 1960s and, in 1967, deputy to Major Arnaldo Ochoa , as the latter was sent on a secret mission to Venezuela to support the rebels there, which ended in strategic defeat and the loss of many lives.

In the following years he completed a degree in military science at various military training institutions in the Soviet Union and between 1975 and 1976 took part in the second FAR deployment in Angola . Rosales del Toro, who became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1975, was last there in 1976 as head of the military units in southern Angola. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army from 1978 to 1979 , he became head of the FAR units in western Cuba in 1979.

In 1982 Rosales del Toro became Vice Minister for Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. After he became a candidate for the Politburo of the PCC Central Committee in 1986, he was promoted to Major General in 1989 and First Vice Minister for Defense and continued to hold the position of Chief of the General Staff of the FAR.

In 1997 he took over the most important office of the Minister of Sugar as the successor to Nelson Torres Pérez and held this position until 2009. In 2008 he succeeded María del Carmen Pérez as Minister of Agriculture, while Luis Manuel Ávila Cruz was the new Minister of Sugar. In addition, since 2009 he has been a vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers and its Executive Committee.

Rosales del Toro handed over the post of Minister of Agriculture to Gustavo Rodríguez Rollero in 2010 . In April 2011 he resigned from the Communist Party's Politburo. He is still a member of the Central Committee of the PCC and a member of the National Assembly .

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SURNAME Rosales del Toro, Ulises
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban major general, politician and Vice-President of the Council of Ministers
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Oriente , Cuba