Cuban authorities shook the upper echelons of the country’s ruling Communist Party and its hermetic politics on Thursday when they announced that they are looking into the “grave errors” that recently dismissed Economy Minister Alejandro Gil committed in his previous position.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel fired Gil in February after he led a significant monetary reform in Cuba in 2021, which was widely regarded as catastrophic for the island nation’s economy.
A television news broadcast and a subsequent news story in state-run digital news outlet CubaDebate on Thursday said a “rigorous investigation” had taken place and accused Gil of “serious errors … in the performance of his duties.”
The publications provided no details of those errors or the allegations against Gil.
“The leadership of our Party and government has never allowed, nor will it ever allow, the proliferation of corruption, simulation and insensitivity,” the statement in state-run media said.
Gil did not immediately respond to the announcements.
State-run media, however, said Gil had acknowledged the accusations and “renounced his status as a member of the Central Committee of the (Communist) Party and as a deputy to the National Assembly.”
Gil advocated most recently for an unpopular plan to raise prices for many government subsidized services, from gasoline to electricity and cooking gas, raising tensions on the street amid runaway inflation and rampant shortages.
