HAVANA.- The Council of State, at the proposal of its, agreed to promote to the position of vice-president of the Council of Ministers Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, Bachelor of Economics, who served since 2008 as First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Ciego de Ávila and from September 2012 in Camagüey.

Taking into account the importance of increasing the development of the protein plant program designed by the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution, based on the results obtained and the potentialities it possesses, the Council of State, considering also the need to appoint to the head of this program a team with demonstrated leadership capacity, agreed that comrade Ulises Rosales del Toro devotes himself completely to this endeavor, an activity he now directs, releasing him from his responsibilities as Vice President of the Council of Ministers.

Currently Tapia Fonseca is a member of the National Assembly of Popular Power for the province of Camagüey.