1. Orlando Borrego was a Cuban economist, writer and guerrilla who worked with Che Guevara during the Cuban Revolution.
16 Facts About Orlando Borrego
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Orlando Borrego was born on March 3,1936 into a peasant family who later identified with the Partido Ortodoxo of Eduardo Chibas.
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Orlando Borrego's father was a taxi driver and his mother a teacher.
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In October 1958, Orlando Borrego joined a column of the 26th of July Movement's rebel army in the Escambray Mountains, which was under the command of Che Guevara.
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Immediately after the revolutionary army's entrance in Havana Orlando Borrego worked alongside Guevara at La Cabana fortress.
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Orlando Borrego was appointed Head of the Military Economic Board and served as a prosecutor at the trials of several members of the Batista regime.
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However, the following month, Che became President of the National Bank, and Orlando Borrego was left to run the Department of Industrialisation.
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Orlando Borrego played an important role in the development of the Budgetary Finance System.
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Orlando Borrego continued to be an adherent of the Budgetary Finance System, and worked closely with Che to improve it.
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Orlando Borrego met with Che for the last time in 1966, during secret preparations for Che's ill-fated expedition in Bolivia.
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Orlando Borrego finally achieved his doctorate in economics from the University of Havana in 1973.
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From 1973 until 1980, Orlando Borrego served as an advisor to the Council of Ministers of Cuba, while at the same time achieving another doctorate from the Central Economic Mathematical Institute in the Soviet Union.
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In 1997, alongside Che's son Ernesto, Orlando Borrego visited Lebanon, where he met with President Elias Hrawi, toured areas near the border with Israel and expressed support for the Lebanese people's struggle against Israeli occupation.
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Orlando Borrego later served as an advisor to the Cuban Ministry of Transport.
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Orlando Borrego visited Great Britain in 2008 on a tour organised by Rock Around the Blockade where he spoke alongside philosopher Jesus Garcia and student leader Yoselin Rufin.
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Orlando Borrego died from complications of COVID-19 on June 26,2021, at the age of 86.