Cuban Economists - Rufo Lopez-Fresquet, Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Felipe Pazos, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique (Paperback)

Chapters: Rufo Lopez-Fresquet, Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Felipe Pazos, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rufo Lopez-Fresquet, a distinguished anti-Batista Cuban economist, became Fidel Castro's first Minister of the Treasury. Married to an American wife, his sons, Antonio and Vincent, fled to the United States in 1960. He later wrote a book, My 14 Months with Castro, which has shed much light on the origins of the revolution and why Castro's new gvernment became pro-communist. Lopez-Fresquet made concerted efforts to work with American companies after the new government came to power, hoping to get investors interested: "Cuban Minister of Finances Rufo Lopez Fresquet Bohemia magazine: I met more that 220 presidents of US corporations...Eastern, Pan American, Pepsi-Cola, Sinclair, Remington Rand, National Can and many other US corporations interested in Cuba. But few of Fidel Castro's original ministers and cabinet members survived the tumultuous times after the revolution placing Castro in power. "Of the twenty-one ministers appointed in January 1959, twelve had resigned or had been ousted by the end of the year. Four more would go out in 1960 as the revolution moved toward a Marxist-Leninist political system." "Only Lopez-Fresquet," said Time Magazine "survived the shake-up" that removed non-communists from Castro's high office positions: "Fighting growing Red influence, the moderates had been meeting every Thursday with Castro for skull sessions warning that his monstrous agrarian reform was devouring the Cuban economy. A few weeks ago, Pazos, Ray and Perez found that they were being followed by Castro's secret police and guessed that the game was lost... had already asked to be allowed to resign next month." Rufo Lopez-F...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=227519