WORLD : Cuba Aviation Chief Fired for ‘Errors’
The president of Cuba’s Civil Aviation Institute, Vicente Gomez Lopez, has been dismissed after less than two years on the job, the official newspaper Granma reported today.
The brief announcement said that his dismissal by the Council of State, headed by President Fidel Castro, was “for serious errors in the methods and style of his work.”
The announcement did not give any specific reasons for his sudden firing.
During the trial of 14 Cuban army and state security officers this week, it was revealed that foreign civilian planes carrying cocaine and drug traffickers had landed numerous times at the Varadero airport to the east of Havana.
The announcement in Granma gave no indication that the Civil Aviation Institute, which controls private and commercial air traffic in Cuba, was involved, directly or indirectly, in giving permission for the planes to land.
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