Humberto Pérez González, former president of JUCEPLAN and architect of Cuban economic planning, died on Saturday in Havana at 88 years old. He was a key figure in the socialist economic model between 1975 and 1985, until Fidel Castro dismissed him and turned him into a scapegoat. His death occurs when Cuba goes through its worst economic crisis in decades.
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Humberto Pérez González, former president of JUCEPLAN and architect of Cuban economic planning, died on Saturday in Havana at 88 years old. He was a key figure in the socialist economic model between 1975 and 1985, until Fidel Castro dismissed him and turned him into a scapegoat. His death occurs when Cuba goes through its worst economic crisis in decades.