Useful pawns such as cabrisas, negotiators of a certain caliber, Castroism is few active. Maybe none.
Havana.- They made him work until his last days, despite the cancer that had long consumed him, but that is that Ricardo Cabrisas Ruizalthough probably servile, it was not an any piece of Castroism but one of the few indispensable for a regime of very few lights in the matters that the deceased attended, especially related to the debts payable and the few foreign, naive and opportunistic investors, which were being left to coat.
That was, in essence, the “arduous work” performed by Cabrisas in his years of service to the dictatorship, even after replaced by illness as Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment just in May 2024. But he remained in the ring, participating in official delegations when he could do it, training and monitoring closely to his first vice minister, Oscar Pérez-Loliv It does not have, even if it carries in the blood the ambition of all the Castro.
But, as the same happened with Miguel Díaz-Canel (which was “what remained” after Roberto Robaina’s dismissals, Carlos Lage, Felipe Pérez Roque and all the other “eligible” of Fidel Castro), Oscar Pérez-Liva Fraga was chosen for the role of Cabrisas not because it corresponded in a “natural” way, but by a fatal “situation”.
Until July 2022, those functions were thought for Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, former son-and-so-sink Supplement as a true “miracle.”
Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja we saw it, until a few weeks before his death, as a constant presence, the same accompanying Brisas closely than Díaz-Canel in international tours and in the reception of foreign delegations in Havana, and although he did not miss the searches and grips enough to replace his mentor of this training reinforced to move with ease in environments very different from that of the FAR (of order and command), external scenarios that only a few in Cuba have managed to handle with the cunning that demands to bring control of the hundreds of companies Off-SHORES and hidden bank accounts out there, beyond the London bench.
Among the “cunning negotiators” of the dictatorship were not only Ricardo Cabrisas and Lopez-Callej , eighty years of age and with several ailments, he is shouting for a replacement. Because everything indicates that it could be, among the thinking tanks, the next to leave to the beyond.
Let us remember the role he played Rodolfo Dávalos In the establishment and permanence of the Meliá chain in Cuba in the 90s, of which it was managerial by the Cuban part, also the management of absolutely all litigation and demands in international cuts, as well as its decisive importance in the creation of CEIBA Investiment Limited, an important investment fund registered in Guernsey in October 1995, which articulates numerous European companies established on the island.
For now, in that role of “Diablo’s lawyer” his daughter, Lourdes Dávalos, has been helping him, from Madrid, but everything indicates that it is just a provisional collaboration, and although since his time at the university he was trained to inherit the functions of his father, some inside the regime are not very convinced of his performance, and for a matter of trust they have sent the young lawyer Manuel Anido Cuest expensive scholarship in Spain that we all know. This turn in events can be interpreted as a payment of gratitude, by Raúl Castro, for the loyalty of the current administrator of the island.
These meetings in Madrid are not a coincidence or issue of political affinity, much less simple walks to restaurants and others. Manuel Anido is being trained by the Davs to occupy the position of the old man, and in that sense he has been enrolled in the National Prosecution of the IE University Business School.
Useful pawns such as cabrisas, negotiators of a certain caliber, Castroism is few active. Maybe none. Because, to those who think about it as an example, I assure you that the enthusiasm for Marino Murillo was as ephemeral as their “reforms”, which in the end they only served to give people a monigote to blame once they would begin to bear fruit (bitter) the packets of monetary unification and other “guidelines”.
So, in reality, Murillo was never a member of that “bright minds” club, which he did once belonged, for example, Manuel Marrero Cruz, the only minister appointed by Fidel Castro who survived the Raulist purge of 2009, perhaps by the negotiator skills that made him essential for tourism matters – according to those who worked together with him – or by his past as a investor in Gaesa.
(I say the latter because, as a curious fact, if we review the biographies of all the “paintings” that today perform in key government positions, we will see that more than half, even within the General Comptroller – which has no power to audit Gaesa – come from there. That is, in a way, Gaesa is the one who has ended up controlling the Comptroller’s Office).
But, ending with the matter, beyond the octogenarian Dávalos and the late cabrisas, the “negotiator” minds of Castroism are in extinction or have been extinguished, and that “thing” similar to the intelligence that is now replacing them, as a genuine fruit of the mediocre “continuity”, is the best proof of the lost there are where, despite the artificial intelligence, they find nothing. And where, according to the recent words of the “brilliant” Marrero Cruz: “The problems are overcoming the ability of our paintings.”
