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The Cuban government suddenly fired its ministers of economy and food industry on Friday, after days of angry public response to an austerity plan rolled out last month that, among other things, planned to hike the price of gas five-fold in the midst of the island’s most severe economic crisis in decades. Without going into much detail, Granma, the Communist Party newspaper, reported that Economy Minister Alejandro Gil, who also served as the country’s first vice prime minister, and who implemented a failed currency reform that fueled galloping inflation in the past two years, was “released fr…

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