The Cuban exile community in Miami (USA) reacted on Friday to the death of Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, president of the Cuban Business Administration Group (Gaesa), with messages in which he spoke of "internal stress" in Cuba and criticized the companies run by the military.
They only serve to "oppress the people and enrich the regime"said Orlando Gutiérrez, leader of the Cuban Democratic Directorate, who went further and stressed that "nothing can be ruled out" in this death
With López-Calleja they are "21 Cuban generals deceased in the last year"including figures "key code" as he and Francis Pardo, head of the Army of the East, said.
"In closed and communist regimes this can indicate that a purge is taking place and there is internal tension"he said, pointing out that he cannot "try" let it be so but it’s your "opinion".
"It’s something very rare"Gutiérrez added to Efe, who summoned the media to make a statement about the death of López-Calleja, who had been born in 1960 and had been married to Raúl Castro’s eldest daughter, Déborah Castro Espín.
"Castroism loses a key man in its brutal machinery. General López-Calleja was in the business of power and enriched himself at the head of the military company"said the Republican congresswoman of Cuban origin María Elvira Salazar.
"These satraps are not immortal. May God have mercy on him, because the Cuban people will not have it!"he added.
López-Calleja, who died of a cardiorespiratory arrest, according to official information, was a division general, adviser to Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, member of the political bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and executive president of Gaesa, who directed from nineteen ninety six.
This conglomerate of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) brings together companies in the tourism and trade sector, both foreign and domestic, among others.
