Felipe Pérez Roque

Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque ( born March 28, 1965 in Havana ) was from 1999 to 2009 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba. At the time of taking office, he was the youngest Minister of the Cuban Cabinet.

Felipe Pérez Roque was chairman of the Cuban Association FEU students and graduated as an electrical engineer from. Prior to his ministerial position, he was head of the support group of Fidel Castro. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and a member of the State Council.

His term as Secretary of State was determined by an active foreign policy that eventually led to the summit of Non-Aligned States in September 2006 in Havana. Felipe Pérez Roque was in international media along with Carlos Lage as one of the younger Cuban politicians who could play an important role of generational change in the political leadership of the country. But in the Cuban population, he was considered representative of the current policy and not as a beacon of hope for change.

As part of a major cabinet reshuffle on 2 March 2009 Pérez Roque lost his position. His successor in the post of foreign minister is the former Deputy Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. A day later, he resigned from political office in the State Council, the Central Committee of the PCC and as representative of the Asamblea Nacional. Pérez Roque and simultaneously abberufene by the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers Carlos Lage detected in similarly worded letters to heads of state and head of government of Raúl Castro to have made ​​mistakes. Previously observed the ill ex- leader Fidel Castro, some of the dismissed ministers were poisoned by the " honey of power". " The external enemy joined some illusions with them. " He wrote, without making any concrete information. According to an article in the New York Times were conducting a house search of Conrado Hernández, Cuban nationals and trade representatives of the Basque Government, secretly Recorded, possibly found for the Spanish secret service certain shots in which location and Pérez Roque, who regularly on Hernández's farm to parties met, would have torn vulgar jokes about Fidel and Raúl Castro and José Ramón Machado Ventura Vice President. A few months after the release party members was presented a three-hour video documentary across the country that occupies and explained the misconduct of Pérez Roque and location as well as several other top officials stepped. The Cuban media reported here on anything.

Since the end of his political career Pérez Roque has not occurred in public, and now works in his learned profession as an electrical engineer.