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 studied economics (degree: Licenciatura ) and later completed a squad training at the Military College Colegio de Defensa Nacional ( CODEN ). In contrast to others, especially the majority of funded by Fidel Castro leaders of the post-revolutionary generation, he made no classic party career in the youth league UJC and the various stages of the PCC, but belongs as an economist rather a politician type favored by Raúl Castro technocrats. Murillo had over twenty years of experience in government economic management, before he was appointed to the first line of Cuban policies: So he was also director of the department of accounting and budget of the Ministry of the Food Industry, Deputy Minister of Economy and Planning and from 2006 to 2009 Minister of Internal Trade.
As to Raúl Castro latter gradually almost all cabinet posts newly occupied in the course of the change in leadership of Fidel, Murillo was in March 2009, the successor to the then Minister of Economy and Planning, José Luis Rodríguez García. At this time, the situation of the Cuban economy and the public finances had been severely affected by the particularly severe tropical cyclones in the previous autumn and the global economic crisis. In the following December Murillo was appointed to the 31-member Council of State. Murillo as the current structural problems of the Cuban economy as well as head of government of Raúl Castro spoke before the Cuban and international media openly and mentioned such as the need of consumption restrictions. During his tenure as Minister of Economics numerous liberalization measures were carried out, which amounted to a total of strengthening the private sector high taxation and a relief of the state sector despite. During the meeting of the half-yearly, which meets Parliament, mid-December 2010, Murillo explained with demonstrative support of the President Mr ( and the Cuban public ) to several days of meetings in detail the ideas of the Cuban leadership to the economic policy changes and increased certainly become a general perception of a representative of the new economy on course.
In March 2011 he was released by the State Council from his ministerial post, which his former deputy, Adel Yzquierdo Rodríguez, took over, and received instead the function of a above the Ministry of Economy settled coordinator of economic policy. His first task was the preparation of content of the VI. Congress of the PCC (April 2011 ) and verification of the practical implementation of the decisions taken there at the official " adaptation " called reforms of the Cuban economic model. He retained his post as vice president of the Council of Ministers. At the party, he was elected to the 24 reduced to 15 members Politburo.
As principal in charge declared by President Raúl Castro to question fate conversion of the Cuban economic system Murillo plays a central role in the Cuban governance. In March 2012, Murillo made it clear to international media representatives that it would, however, give in Cuba only " updates the economic model ," no political reforms, as Pope Benedict XVI. had during his visit to Cuba suggested an opening of the system and not just been referred to the Marxist ideology as the solution of current problems to date.
Its at this time 24 - year-old daughter, Glenda Murillo Díaz, fled in August 2012 via Mexico to the USA.