Fired!

This ministerial replacement demonstrates the general civics point that the Council of State executes proposals advanced by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party. That is, a small cohort drawn from the top echelon of the broad-based party makes recommendations, which are carried out by the select executive group elected from the hundreds of national legislators. This, my friends, is an institutionalized revolution.

The narrower point of this case, is that somebody just got fired. The habanero elite are probably all gossiping incessantly about this.

[[UPDATE--Apparently the Foreign Investment Minister was let go because of premature praise for Obama's victory. Of course, all of Cuba had been rooting for Obama for months. And its not like she gaffed by rhetorically intruding on the sovereignty of another country's internal affairs--the election results had been determined, which in fact was the subject of her comment...When I said the Havana chattering classes would be all aflutter, it may have been more accurate to mention Miami's nattering chismosos.]]