They dismiss the first secretary of the Party in Las Tunas

Manuel René Pérez Gallego had been in office for five years. Walter Simón Noris, member of the executive bureau of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Camagüey, was elected in his place.

19/04/2024 - 5:39pm (GMT-5) | 4

The Cuban government dismissed Manuel René Pérez Gallego this Friday as first secretary of the Communist Party in Las Tunas, a position he had held since June 2019, so he did not reach five years in the position.

A brief note shared in theNewspaper 26 It does not explain the causes of the demotion, it only reveals that he was "released" at the request of the Political Bureau and that "other responsibilities will be assigned to him", after 19 years working in the party organization.

He is replaced by Walter Simón Noris, who served as a member of the executive bureau in the Provincial Committee of the Party in Camagüey.

Simón is 54 years old and has a degree in Physical Culture, with 30 years of experience as a political cadre.

He directed the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in Nuevitas and was second secretary of the organization in the province of Camagüey. Upon joining the Party, he served as first secretary in the Guáimaro and Camagüey municipalities, and then he was a member of the provincial bureau, where he attended to two areas of work.

The demotion of the head of the Party in Las Tunas joins others that have occurred so far this year at the top of Castro's power.

Just two weeks ago the regimefired Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, who for five years was first secretary of the Party in Havana and was dismissed "due to renewal of his responsibility," according to official information.

Liván Izquierdo Alonso, who held the same position in Ciego de Ávila, was named as his replacement.

At the end of March theprovincial government of Matanzas confirmed the replacement of Susely Morfa González, known among Cubans as "the millionaire psychologist", who has served since 2022 as the first secretary of the Party in that territory.

Susely was at the head of the PCC in Matanzas for less than two years. The regime announced that he would be assigned "other responsibilities" in high places.

A few days before, it was reporteddismissal of the first secretary of the Party in Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso, who had assumed that role in 2019.