Cuban authorities and people will pay posthumous tribute this Wednesday to Ricardo Cabrisas. Who died the day before while serving as the country’s deputy prime minister. According to an official announcement released in local media.
According to the statement, on Tuesday afternoon in Havana, “comrade Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, deputy prime minister of the Republic of Cuba, with an outstanding career in service to the Revolution,” died.
Cabrisas, who was born on January 21st, 1937, in Havana, graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Trade and also studied Political Science, the statement adds.
It also adds that he “participated in the revolutionary activities organized against the tyranny of Fulgencio Batista by the student movement at the Secondary Education Institute of Ciego de Avila.”
Moreover he also noted that he participated in mobilizations of the University Student Federation and the March 13th Revolutionary Directorate at the University of Havana, while studying medicine.
In 1959, he joined the Revolutionary Navy and later served in the Ministry of the Interior.
Beginning in 1961, he emphasized, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Also he served as a Commercial Counselor in Uruguay, Chile, and Canada; and as Cuba’s Observer Delegate to the Latin American Free Trade Association.
Futhermore he also noted that he served as “Director of Trade Policy with Latin America. Cuba’s Deputy Commissioner General for EXPO ’67. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Government of Japan. And Deputy Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade from 1980 to 2000.”
Due to his proven ability, he emphasized, he was appointed Minister of Government and, eight years later, Vice President of the Council of Ministers. Simultaneously with this responsibility, he served as Minister of Economy and Planning and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment.
It also states that “he enjoyed the full confidence of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and of the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, the State, and the Government.”
“He was awarded multiple national and international recognitions. Including the honorary title of Hero of Labor of the Republic of Cuba and the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun,” it states.
In adittion “he was a member of the Central Committee of the PCC and a deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power,” it emphasizes, and affirms that “the Revolution has lost an official whose loyalty, knowledge, and ability earned him the respect and trust to entrust him with high responsibilities.”
The posthumous tribute will be paid starting at 9:00 a.m. local time at the headquarters of the Council of Ministers. The place where he dedicated much of his life to work, the official statement specifies.
With information from Prensa Latina
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