SAM DOLGOFF concentrated into the Council of Ministers -there are a number of affiliated national agencies such as Agriculture and Husbandry Development; The Fishihg and Forestry Institute; The National Poultry Board; and a number of cultural bodiesthe Institutes of Cinema, Literature, The National Council of Culture and similar groupings. 2) Actually the real power is exercised by the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers (equivalent to a Cabinet) composer of ten Deputy Prime Ministers who control and coordinate their respective departments and agencies. These departments include: basic industry and energy; consumer goods industries and domestic tracte; the sugar industry; non-sugar agriculture; construction; transportation and communications; education and welfare. « ... The Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers was created persuant to the orientation of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba ... » 3) At the intermediate levels, Coordinating Provincial Councils appointed by the Deputy Prime Ministers of the Executive Committee in « ... coordination with the Provincial Delegates of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party will carry out ... the directives issued from above . . . by the corresponding central authority ... » (Le. The Deputy Prime Minfsters of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers.) 4) « ... the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers, Fidel Castro Ruz, who also presides over the Executive Committee of the Council of Mtnisters will be directly in charge of the following agencies: Minlstry of the Revolutlonary Armed Forces (FAR), Ministry of the Interior. National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) and Mlnlstry of Public Health ... » Since Castro is also the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communlst Party of Cuba (CPC) and slnce every major and minlstry and agency head is a member of the CPC and is appointed by Castro, Herbert Matthews (a Castro sympathizer) reluctantly concludes that: « ... all the organs of state power are under Castro's direct command. He is allpowerful and it is his Revolution. . . Castro does not want -or dare- to create a self-goveming administration; a managerial apparatus; an autonomous political party; a powerful military élite; because any one of them, could threaten his power ... » (1). Following the Stalinist pattern, the Cuban State 1s a structured pyramid in which absolute power is ultimately exercised by an 1nd1v1dual (Castro) or by a collective dlctatorship as in post Stalln Russia. Cl) Herbert Matthews, Cuba. ln RevoluUon: New York_ 1876, p. 379. 48
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