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Cuban
tourism officials confirm firing of company
president
Associated Press. South
Florida Sun-Sentinel, December 8, 2003.
HAVANA - Cuba's Tourism Ministry confirmed
Monday that the head of the largest state-run
tourism firm and several other company managers
were removed from their jobs because of
"grave errors'' in leadership.
But it adamantly denied international media
reports that the company, Cubanacan, had
lost millions of dollars, or that the former
president Juan Jose Vega _ or anyone else
_ had been arrested.
Vega and three other unnamed company officials
who were fired "did not, in a single
case, participate in theft or fraud,'' the
ministry said in a statement carried by
state-controlled media. Rather, "they
committed grave errors in their work and
leadership associated with a failure of
rigor and control.''
The Associated Press last week confirmed
with officials inside the company that Vega
was no longer on the job. But at the time,
the island's tourism officials would not
comment on news reports that he and others
were under house arrest pending a financial
probe into financial improprieties.
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Florida Sun-Sentinel
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