Marino Murillo

Born in 1961, the so-called czar of Cuba's economic reforms holds a degree in Economics. He served as Vice President of the Council of Ministers and was a member of the Council of State. He held various positions and responsibilities, ultimately serving as Minister of Economy and Planning from 2009 to 2011. In September 2014, he was appointed Minister of Economy and Planning, a position he held alongside his role as Vice President of the Government and Head of the Permanent Commission for Implementation and Development, until he was released from his ministerial duties on July 13, 2016, to continue as Vice President and Head of the Permanent Commission for Implementation and Development.

Marino Murillo is photographed strolling in Madrid alongside a vice minister of the regime

Díaz-Canel appears at the boulevard in Pinar del Río wearing a Panama hat and an embroidered guayabera

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Ulises Toirac on measures announced by Díaz-Canel: "Is some flag of socialism being lowered?"

Elías Amor reveals who created GAESA and how it controls the Cuban economy

Cuban tribunal imposes liquidation on Italian company after nearly 20 years of conflict

National survey: Díaz-Canel faces absolute rejection of the government in Cuba

The revolution devours its own children: The trial of Gil reopens the long list of those sacrificed by Castroism

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

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

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

Marino Murillo inaugurates a store in MLC for tobacco producers

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

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

Silvio Rodríguez denounces loss of national dignity following the lavish party of the Habano Festival at the Capitolio

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 mocks Cuba: "Everything is going as Murillo promised, all fat and his millionaire's watch."

Cuban regime secures 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 restructuring" and will cease its implementation

Families affected by the collapse in Havana are moved to a location in terrible conditions

Government sells 270 tractors in dollars to tobacco producers

Tobacco growers in Pinar del Río will not meet planting plans

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

Marino Murillo will be out of the new Cuban Parliament

Delays in tobacco production in Pinar del Río

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

Cuba reduces the areas allocated for tobacco planting by 20 percent

Large-scale fire in the tobacco selection in 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 greatest evidence of the failure of the economic plan

Tobacco farmers report that Marino Murillo has reduced the payment in MLC to the farmers

The Government of Cuba is preparing measures to rectify the monetary arrangement

Marino Murillo appointed president of Tabacuba

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

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

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

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

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

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

Journalist José Raúl Gallego on Carlos Lage's video: "Nothing good can be expected from these people."

Cuba's Electric Union 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 remedy it

Marino Murillo explains in Raúl Castro's words how to enhance the development of socialist enterprises 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 the restructuring, Marino Murillo, is no longer part of 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 farmer harvests a 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 tariffs 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 for her."

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

Díaz Canel does not attend the MEP event, the "general staff of the Cuban economy."