Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez (born 1955) is a Cuban politician and was the Cuban Minister of Finances and Prices from 2009 to 2019. She was appointed after

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'', "Cuban Economy: Purge Aims to Halt Cuba's Economic Free Fall", Sunday 8 March 2009, p. 1A.

Education and career

Pedraza has a bachelor's degree in economic control. She served in Villa Clara, in the banking sector and at the Ministry of Finance and Prices. She was minister of Audits and Control from 2001 to 2006, when she was promoted to member of the Secretariat and Head of the Economics Department of the

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(CCPCC). She is also a deputy at the National Assembly of Popular Power.

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