The arrival of Joaquín Alonso Vázquez to the Ministry of Economy and Planning, after the defenestration of the previous owner, Alejandro Gil Fernández, has resurrected a controversial publication of his on social networks that incited violence against activists and opponents of the Cuban regime.
“It is authorized to shoot with any caliber and use any weapon,” said the now minister on Facebook in July 2020, attaching an image with portraits of the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), José Daniel Ferrer García and the promoter of the platform Cubadecide, Rosa María Payá Acevedo.
Their portraits, hung like targets in a shooting range, were accompanied by those of prominent figures of Cuban political activism, such as influencers Alex Otaola, Eliecer Ávila Cicilia, Roberto San Martin and Jorge Ramón Batista Calero (Ultrack).
"The Cuban regime has just appointed the agent who called for "shooting with any caliber and using any weapon" against José Daniel Ferrer, Rosa María Payá and 4 other representatives of Cuban civic organizations as Minister of Economy," the Cuban government said on its social networks. Cubadecide platform.
Alonso Vázquez's publication no longer appears on Facebook and, at the time, was reported by the activist Ana Belkis Ferrer García (sister of José Daniel) and by Otaola himself, who highlighted the position held by the now minister (president of CADECA) to highlight the incitement to hatred and the threats implicit in the words of a high-ranking official of the Cuban regime.
“You are going to tell me that this is not a hate publication. Then they say that we divide Cubans and sow hatred. "I think it's the dictatorship, I think it's them," said the presenter on his program. Cubans around the World.
For her part, Ana Belkis used her social networks to call Alonso Vázquez a “terrorist and Castro agent from Havana” and captured his publication and his call: “It is authorized to shoot with any caliber and use any weapon.”
Figure at the top of the Cuban regime without great media projection, Alonso Vázquez recently replaced Gil Fernández as minister of the executive of Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Almost unknown to the country's population, the person who made a public call inciting hatred and violence was Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba, a position in which replaced the previous owner in February 2023, Marta Sabina Wilson González, following the trial against the regime in a London court for a debt of 75 million dollars who claimed an investment fund.
At the time when he called for the shooting of actors of the Cuban civil society, with a degree in Finance and Credit and a master's degree in Business Administration and Management served as president of the Exchange Houses (CADECA).
With 60 years and experience in the management of opaque financial entities of the Cuban regime, Alonso Vázquez was also director of the CUBALSE Commerce and Services Corporation (2000-2010), as well as director of Credits of the FINALSE Financial House.
In addition, he was a delegate of Popular Power and vice president of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC) in Havana.
With an extensive management career in important financial and business institutions of the Cuban regime, the now Minister of Economy and Planning arrives at the position after having demonstrated his loyalty to the leadership that controls the dollarized economy of the Island, of which he is considered “ continuity".
And to demonstrate it, the "cadre" Alonso Vázquez does not hesitate to exercise verbal violence and State terrorism on those who denounce the Cuban dictatorship.
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