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Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez

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Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez
Cuban Minister of Finances and Prices
In office
March 2009 – 9 January 2019
Preceded byGeorgina Barreiro Fajardo
Succeeded byMeisi Bolaños Weiss
Personal details
Born(1955-09-16)16 September 1955
Political partyCommunist Party of Cuba

Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez (born 1955[1]) is a Cuban politician and was the Cuban Minister of Finances and Prices from 2009 to 2019. She was appointed after 2009 shake-up by Raúl Castro.[2]

Education and career

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Pedraza has a bachelor's degree in economic control.[3] She served in Villa Clara, in the banking sector and at the Ministry of Finance and Prices.[3] She was minister of Audits and Control from 2001 to 2006, when she was promoted to member of the Secretariat and Head of the Economics Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CCPCC). She is also a deputy at the National Assembly of Popular Power.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Consejo de Ministros". www.cubagov.cu. Archived from the original on 3 May 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ The Miami Herald, "Cuban Economy: Purge Aims to Halt Cuba's Economic Free Fall", Sunday 8 March 2009, p. 1A.
  3. ^ a b c "Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez" (PDF). University of Miami. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2012.