Adel Yzquierdo | |
Order: | Minister of Transport |
Term Start: | 9 September 2015 |
Predecessor: | César Ignacio Arocha |
Birth Date: | 12 June 1945 |
Party: | Communist Party of Cuba |
Profession: | military, engineer |
Adel Onofre Yzquierdo Rodríguez (born 12 June 1945) is a Cuban politician and engineer.
Yzquierdo Rodríguez studied at the V.V. Kuybyshev Institute of Civil Engineering in Moscow.
He has held several positions in the Council of Ministers: Minister of Economy and Planning from 2011 to 2014; First Vice-Minister of Economy and Planning from 26 September 2014 to 9 September 2015; and Minister of Transport from 9 September 2015 to date.
Yzquierdo was appointed Vice-President of the Council of Ministers on 20 February 2012.[1]
On 18 April 2019, he was elected to the National Assembly of People's Power, representing the municipality of Playa in Havana.