Most powerful Cuban general Lopez Calleja, 62, dies of a heart attack on Friday, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said.
He was a Cuban soldier, businessman, and politician. If you are interested to know more about the powerful man’s Wikipedia, bio, family, and many more then keep reading us. We can satisfy your curiosity.
Cuban general Lopez Calleja Dies Of Heart attack: Media Reports
Cuban general Luis Alberto Rodriguez-Calleja dies of cardiorespiratory arrest according to media reports. He was considered one of the most powerful men in Cuba.
Lopez-passing Calleja was regretted in a brief article in Granma, the newspaper of the Communist Party, which praised his great record of services to the Homeland and the Cuban Revolution as he was a key member of Cuba’s political bureau.
The death of Calleja leaves a significant power vacuum and seriously disrupts Cuba’s political system. We’ll have to see which relative Raul Castro, the dictator, chooses to take his place.
Lopez Calleja Wikipedia And Bio
On January 19, 1960, Rodriguez López-Calleja was born in the central province of Villa Clara in Cuba. His father is Cuban Army General Guillermo Rodríguez del Pozo (1929-2016), a fellow traveler of the Castro brothers during the Cuban Revolution.
The Cuban Armed Forces leader’s biography is little known as he was rarely quoted in the Cuban media and little photographed.
He joined the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in 2011.
His official biography states that he received his training in the former Soviet Union before being dispatched to Angola in 1990 as a counterintelligence officer.
He was a close confidant of Raul Castro and the president of GAESA, a group of military-owned businesses that oversees a sizable portion of the Cuban economy. He was its president at the time of his death and had served as a director since 1996. Moreover, he controlled much of Cuba’s tourism, estate development, supermarkets, gas stations, and many other profitable businesses.
According to miamiherald.com, he was given a position on the Communist Party Politburo in April of last year. He was referred to as Miguel Daz-“special Canel’s adviser” in official media in September. He was appointed to the National Assembly in late October, representing Remedios, a town in the Santa Clara province’s center.
However, the general was also connected to a network of offshore corporations that moved government funds internationally to conduct business and get past the U.S. economic embargo.
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on him in 2020 as a result of his management of GAESA, the military’s economic wing in Cuba.
Lopez-assets Calleja’s were frozen in 2020 when Lopez-Calleja was added to a list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons,” a U.S. blacklist that forbids U.S. citizens from doing business with him.
Raul Castro’s ex-son-law Lopez Calleja Family Details
Lopez Calleja married Deborah Castro Espin, eldest daughter of Raul Castro in the 1990s. Deborah graduated in chemical engineering. The couple shared two children named Vilma Rodríguez Castro and Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro.
Raul Guillermo is in charge of the personal protection cell of his grandfather Raul Castro.
Although after his divorce, the politician maintained good relations with his former father-in-law Raul Castro.
He had enormous influence in the Cuban government despite the divorce, which in recent years has also been reflected in more public appearances and prominent political positions.
Not much information about his family is disclosed yet on social media must probably due to his busy life.