Marino Murillo

(n. 1961) Known as the "czar" of Cuba's economic reforms, he holds a degree in Economics. He served as the Vice President of the Council of Ministers and was a member of the State Council. He held various positions and responsibilities, becoming the Minister of Economy and Planning from 2009 to 2011. In September 2014, he was appointed Minister of Economy and Planning, a role he shared with that of Vice President of the Government and Head of the Permanent Commission for Implementation and Development until he was relieved of his ministerial duties on July 13, 2016, to remain as Vice President and Head of the Permanent Commission for Implementation and Development.

Amelia Calzadilla dismantles the official narrative about El Toque: the issue is the government and its forced dollarization

Cuban economist contradicts the regime's chancellor: The informal market is a result of poor internal economic design

Marino Murillo sells first batch of 150 tractors to tobacco farmers in MLC

Marino Murillo inaugurates MLC store for tobacco producers

Tabacuba is the trap: What is hidden behind the sale of Mercedes-Benz to Cuban tobacco farmers?

President of Tabacuba promises to "improve the living conditions" of workers, without mentioning decent wages

Silvio Rodríguez denounces the loss of national dignity following the luxurious party of the Havana Festival at the Capitol

Criollo cigars are in short supply while Tabacuba celebrates meeting production targets

Cuban government will distribute fuel directly to tobacco producers: "In previous years, only 40% reached the fields."

Ulises Toirac jokes about Cuba: "Everything continues to run just as Murillo promised, all fat and his millionaire watch."

Cuban regime achieves 721 million dollars in tobacco sales in 2024

Gerardo Hernández in Olympic mode: Rolex, tobacco, and "rifle"

Marrero Cruz on state-owned enterprises: “We let them deteriorate to later justify their privatization.”

Cuban regime triples the price of tractors sold to farmers in Pinar del Río

"This farm belongs to the government": Tabacalero de Hoyos de Monterrey acknowledges that he is not the owner of the land

Cuban regime acknowledges failure of the "economic reordering" and will cease its implementation

Families affected by the collapse in Havana are being relocated to a facility in terrible conditions

Government sells 270 tractors in dollars to tobacco producers

Tobacco growers in Pinar del Río will not meet planting targets

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Castrismo consumes soldiers, but the little room is in worse shape

Marino Murillo will be excluded from the new Cuban Parliament

Delays in tobacco production in Pinar del Río

Large-scale fire extinguished in the tobacco zone of Pinar del Río

Cuba reduces the areas allocated for tobacco planting by 20 percent

Large-scale fire in the tobacco selection facility of San Antonio de los Baños

Pinar del Río reduces tobacco plantings by more than 2,400 hectares for 2022

Economist Pedro Monreal points out that inflation is the biggest evidence of the failure of the economic order

Tobacco farmers report that Marino Murillo reduced the payments in MLC to the farmers

Cuban government prepares measures to rectify monetary management

Marino Murillo appointed president of Tabacuba

El Bacán to Murillo: "What you need to do is rearrange the suitcase and head back to Manzanillo on foot."

Díaz-Canel disbands the Commission for the Implementation of Economic Guidelines in the country

Marino Murillo warns about a 6,900% inflation rate in the Cuban informal market

Ulises Toirac warns the government after Murillo's speech: "The 15th is coming, and many people will take to the streets."

Cubans respond to Murillo and his policies: "The people can’t take it anymore."

Luis Silva to Murillo: "That arrangement has been like three more pandemics for the Cuban family."

Journalist José Raúl Gallego on Carlos Lage's video: "You can't expect anything good from these people."

The Electric Union of Cuba complains about unpaid bills in a year marked by crisis and blackouts

José Daniel Ferrer describes the situation in today's Cuba and calls for freedom to address it

Marino Murillo explains in the words of Raúl Castro how to enhance the development of socialist enterprise in Cuba

In Cuba, there is a government in Cuban pesos and another in MLC

Once again, the government wants to "solve" the agricultural problem in Cuba

Head of planning, Marino Murillo, is removed from the Political Bureau and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba

The Castro government violates its own laws by delaying the publication in the Official Gazette

Cuban woman harvests giant sweet potato weighing 31 pounds in Holguín

Mother blames Díaz-Canel for the suffering of millions of Cubans

Murillo admits that Cubans forced a revision of the economic package

The Government of Cuba assures that electricity rates will not increase any further, at least this year

Cuban father to Díaz-Canel: "My daughter cries for a lollipop or a cookie that I can't buy her."

Díaz-Canel: "The reform defends social justice, but not through egalitarianism."

Díaz-Canel does not attend the MEP event, the "command center of the Cuban economy."

Cubadebate removes the survey that showed public discontent with the economic reforms

Cubadebate gives the last rites to comrade Murillo and his chaos

From Context to Complication: The Continuity of Euphemisms in Díaz-Canel's Cuba

37 medications in Cuba will return to the price prior to the normalization

We need answers: Cuban doctors in Venezuela demand

Cuban erupts on social media: "I won't pay for this robbery," says about a 400 pesos bill for manufactured gas

Retired pilot dedicates letter to Marino Murillo: "Show the water tanks in your house"

Murillo on the rise in the cost of living for the elderly in Cuba: "It is not possible for all the responsibility to fall on the State."