The dismissal of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil Fernández, ordered ten days ago by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, exposes a collapse. The food emergency, the dismantling of strategic sectors such as production of sugar, almost non-existent, a fiscal deficit 18.5% higher than that of the previous decade, according to analysts and the former minister's own sister, María Victoria Gil.
The economic reforms that began with Raúl Castro in power, although they did not solve the structural problems of the economy, meant a respite.