SLP, Mexico.- Rogelio Polanco Fuenteswho had served as Ideological Head of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), was appointed ambassador to Vietnam this Thursday, November 28.
Without having been mentioned by the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, who serves as first secretary of the PCC, the designation has passed without much significance through the social networks of the regime’s officials.
a short note of the Cuban Foreign Ministry wrote: “The designated ambassador of Cuba in Vietnam, comrade Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, today presented the cstyle opias of the credentials to the Deputy Deputy Director of the Protocol Department of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, Comrade Vu Hoang Yen.”
For his part, the until now faithful Castro spokesman thanked the platform of
Honored to present copy copies to Foreign Ministry Deputy Deputy Director of Protocol Vu Hoang Yen, as ambassador-designate of #Cuba before the Socialist Republic of #Vietnam. pic.twitter.com/B3HXRuI20r
— Rogelio Polanco Fuentes (@RPolancoF) November 28, 2024
In their networks In addition, he showed images of the presentation of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) at Ho Guom Opera in Hanoi, where he attended together with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first performance of the BNC in Vietnam.
Rogelio Polanco has a degree in International Political Relations and was a member of the National Secretariat of the FEU, the National Bureau of the UJC and was in charge of the official newspaper Rebel Youth for twelve years.
He served as ambassador in Venezuela for a decade, upon his return he was appointed Rector of the “Raúl Roa García” Higher Institute of International Relations. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Central Committee of the Party and has also been a deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power since the V Legislature.
Last year, the former head of the Ideological Department of the Communist Party of Cuba assured that the island’s regime was in condition to fight on social networks to neutralize the subversive action of the enemies of the Revolution.
In an interview offered to the portal RebellionPolanco Fuentes explained that social networks constitute a scenario where the reality of countries like Cuba is manipulated and distorted.
According to Polanco, the Revolution must not only appropriate these “weapons,” but also “learn to master them and use them for our own objectives.”
The former head of the Ideological Department of the PCC has also opted to strengthen the censorship apparatus against social networks, and not only in Cuba, but internationally.
