Gaesa has been becoming much more visible at the head of foreign trade and, above all, of the renegotiations of the debts payable.
Havana, Cuba. – From the ambitious and elitist perspective of the holding company Gaesa, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz It was always a “necessary evil.” The regime needed the cunning of the old man to “renegotiate” what has already been negotiated and, as was also the interlocutor claimed by the counterparts, so it cost them a lot of work to get him out of the game until just a few days, and that is not even Raúl Castro dared to remove him completely before the reality that he had no replacement.
I almost had it for a short time, but in July 2022 everything went down with the sudden death of the general Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Callejawhich had already been thought without any discussion to directly replace Rodrigo Malmierca as Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), but the fatal fate forced them to reactivate Cabrisas again, in April 2023, who had worked hard as a mentor of the president of Gaesa.
The plans gave them plans, and so strong that the constant movements in such a short time in the Ministries of Foreign Trade and Economics, the reactivations of the same figure (that of Cabrisas, since the 80s) in the same positions, give an account of the despair due to the lack of “paintings” substitutes, to the point that the portfolios have not only been observed from well close by “reliable”, designated inside the interior of the family, but they have designated the interior of the family. Finished in the hands of those who only had the mission of ensuring control, for Gaesa, from the shadows.
In this sense, the mission of the electronic engineer Oscar Pérez Oliva-Frga, son of Miresa Fraga Castro and grandson of Ángela Castro, sister of Raúl and Fidel, within the Mincex, as Vice Minister, was only that of “Observer”, as well as in his previous position as Director of Business Evaluation in the Special Zone of Development Mariel (Zed), appointed directly by López-Calleja. But the “Business Director”, which is how he is told informally to the position, is the subject who decides who and how he enters or leaves the business.
His rise from Vice Minister to Vice Minister First, in January 2024, and then four months later replace Cabrisas Ruiz (appointed just one year ago) it could be said that it was a desperate decision, as long MINCEX).
Ana Teresita was relocated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINCEX) for the attention of the Cuban Department abroad, for the weight they today have as a group in the economy, both as remittance and tourism issuing, as importers and financiers for formal and informal economies (that is, for Gaesa), as well as political mediators between one shore and another.
It is important to be clear that both Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga and its cousin are fundamental pieces of Gaesa’s gear, which in turn functions as a money of producing and appropriating it (and that consequently leaves as a residue the intense poverty that the island suffers) managed by the Castro family, which in these moments of despair, without strange people in which to blindly trust, it has been forced to show the threads that move it.
In relation to these cousins in power and the despair of the Castro, today the rumors, out of the family circle itself, which even point to a speedy reactivation as a manager in some important company of Gaesa, or already as a high -level advisor, of that José Antonio Fraga Castro that was president of Labiofam until the 2014 scandal, which caused their dismissal, are even very strong. loyalties to feel safe.
Gaesa, where the most powerful ambitions of the main figures of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and the interior, with Its billions of dollars As accumulated strength to respond to a fall or crisis of power, it is the only guarantee of “continuity” for a regime that today needs more than 80 percent of what you enter to stand up, which in the very short term could lead to an implosion (some, too enthusiastic inside the regime itself, dare to say that “controlled”).
In that sense, Oscar Pérez Oliva-Fraga (playing the role that would have corresponded to Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja) has the only mission to ensure that all the strategies deployed from the MINCEX contribute to the strengthening of Gaes with the obstacle that Miguel Díaz-Canel could have represented in case his role as “president.”
Gaesa has been moving his pieces in all these years until he completely dominates not only the economy of the regime, but has also made repressive devices more efficient, which before they only had to ensure the safety of the main figures of Castroism.
Today they not only have, for example, a Homer Acosta, Colonel and Judge of the Armed Forces, as secretary of the National Assembly of Popular Power and the State Council (controlling the steps and decisions of a “reliable” such as Esteban Lazo, generating laws to strengthen the holding company from which it comes), but they are overflowing with nepotism by designating the Minister of the Interior to the General of the Lázaro Division Alberto Álvarez Casas, nephew of Julio Casas Regueiro (who died in 2011), who was creator of Gaesa and first mentor of López-Calleja and even Marrero Cruz.
There are other Fraga and other Castro, as well as other houses and other Regueiro, distributed by that same structure, where without a doubt it is not accidental, but part of the same “family” plot, the appointment of the current Minister of Finance and Prices, Vladimir Regueiro Ale.
But with that movement of “paintings” in the Mincex, which have tried to pass as a “natural” replacement, in fact Gaesa has been becoming much more visible to the head of foreign trade and, above all, of the renegotiations of the debts payable, which was like the square that was being unprotected before the absence of another reliable one that served at the same level that Ruiz was created. (to Gaesa) as a replacement.
