Cuba Has New Health Minister

HAVANA TIMES, July 23 — Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer has been replaced by First Vice-minister Roberto Morales,43, revealed official sources on Friday, reported IPS.   No reason was given for Balaguer’s “liberation”, a term frequently used to refer to dismissed officials.

Balaguer, 78, is part of the generation of historic figures from the Cuban revolution and will return to work at the Central Committee of the Communist Party, noted Granma newspaper.

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