Cuban Transportation Minister Replaced
Fri Jun 20, 9:46 PM ET 


HAVANA - Cuba's government announced Friday it had replaced the transportation minister, and a relatively unknown Communist Party official was named to the key post overseeing the island's public transportation system.

   

Outgoing transportation minister Alvaro Perez Morales "will be assigned to other duties," a short story reported in Granma, the Communist Party newspaper.


It identified the new minister as Manuel Pozo Torrado, a 40-year-old engineer who oversaw construction, transportation and communications for the party.


There was no reason given for the move