Madrid/Yuniasky Crespo Baquero, who is just 48 years old and has already been in the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, is since Thursday the new head of the ideological department, a position that was presumably vacant since in November 2024 Rogelio Polanco went from ambassador to Vietnam. 10 months passed without the PCc announcing a substitute and it is not known who assumed the functions of Guardian of the essences of the PCC and its media during that long internship.
Until now, Crespo had been in charge of the Department of Attention to the Social Sector, a position that he maintained simultaneously to his status as deputy in the National Assembly since 2013. From that same year until 2018, that is, under the mandate of Raúl Castro, he was a member of the State Council.
The leader has made a brilliant race to get where he is in the game today. Since childhood she was delegate of course, both in primary and secondary school, in addition to going with that position to the second Congress of Pioneers and invited to the third. Later, already in the upper secondary education, he arrived in the president of the Federation of Secondary Education students and, as a member of the University Student Federation (FEU), participated in the organization of the VI Congress, where she was appointed professional member of the National Secretariat.
Crespo had been in charge of the Department of Attention to the Social Sector, a position that he maintained simultaneously to his status as deputy in the National Assembly since 2013
It also has an extensive career in the Union of Young Communists (UJC), put in the Municipal and Provincial Committee of Las Tunas, avant -garde worker of the Education Workers’ Union in 2009 and 2010 and endless positions within the organization and its branches. In the work, his education studies in the specialty of Marxism-Leninism and History do not seem to have provided work as a teacher, but they do give exactly the training he needs for his new position, a very relevant position for the priority combat of the regime.
The date of its appointment is not strictly known, but in its Facebook profile, where it is very active, posted The graduation – last Wednesday – of the first promotion of the Doctoral Training Program Political Directorate of Society at the University of the Ñico López party, where it was already indicated that he attended holding that position. In the same act, it was signed “the declaration of the revolutionary government in support of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
This collection of support signatures to Maduro at the time of the tension escalation with Washington for military operations in the Caribbean is being carried out throughout the island, including schools and all kinds of centers, and is probably the first great propaganda task of Crespo leadership.
Movements like made in the main press bodies of the party, Granma and Rebel youth, They could also be motivated by the new head of the ideological. The announcement of the new directors of both media was made on Wednesday, when the arrival of Yerky Sánchez Cuellar was communicated to the maximum responsibility of Granma. Member also of the central committee, deputy in the National Assembly and member of the State Council, its profile is very similar to that of Crespo and rises directly from Rebel youth.
This newspaper came after graduating in 2007 in journalism and going through the newspaper Vanguardin Villa Clara, and the magazine Alma mater. Since 2014, I was in Rebel youthwhere he rose quickly until he became a director in 2017.
Yuniel Labacena Romero, 36 years old – only five less than Sánchez -, a graduate in Journalism, a member of the UJC National Committee, and whose career has developed completely in the environment he now directs.
Crespo’s succession, meanwhile, has also been tied. Rolando Ernesto Yero Travieso is now the new head of the Department of Attention to the Social Sector, where he arrives from his position in command of the UJC Attention Office. Training doctor, specialized in internal medicine, his experience is almost exclusively to the political sphere and as close as the sector in which it was formed has been when he attended “the activity of health, science and pharmaceutical industry” in the province of Havana.
Waiting to know the background and forms of the new leader, in social networks he already has the enthusiasm of a militant of Pinar del Río that has exalted it to the detriment of its predecessor. “This for me is one of the best news that can be read in the current times, after many years of abandonment and deterioration of one of the most important tasks of the PCC. I really have been denouncing the lack of political and ideological work of the PCC and the UJC, an department that is fundamental in the support of our revolutionary process and that practically disappeared under the ‘direction’ or rather the lack of direction, of motivation and the disinterest of the activity of motivation and the activity Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, ”said the user.
“I truly do not know why merits would be designated in a hidden and secret ambassador of Cuba in Vietnam, when what I really had was the demotion of all partisan and government positions and that I would return to being a journalist. I am satisfied that today we already have a helm in the ideological department, but more satisfies me to know that his boss is a woman who has traveled several years in partisan tasks, I am convinced that I will be convinced in this department. To be what before Polanco was, ”the Pinarño has settled.
