"Her father broke down crying when he learned of the defection, another relative in Havana told several neighbors."
Let's just say Raul isn't going to be too happy.
In The Miami Herald:
The 24-year-old daughter of Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo, sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to ruler Raul Castro, defected earlier this month and is now living in Tampa, knowledgeable sources said.
Glenda Murillo Diaz crossed the Mexico border at Laredo, Texas, around Aug. 16, the sources told The Miami Herald, meaning she was paroled under the wet-foot, dry-foot policy, which allows Cubans who set foot on U.S. land to stay.
Her decision to abandon communist-ruled Cuba and settle in the historically antagonistic United States would be a vote of no-confidence on the profound economic reforms that Castro has ordered and that her father is in charge of enacting.
Marino Murillo, 51, known as Cuba's "reforms tsar," is vice president of the ruling Council of State and member of the powerful political bureau of the Cuban Communist Party. Castro last year put him in charge of executing the reforms.
A portly economist reported to have served as a military officer, he first came to public notice in 2006 when Castro, who served for decades as defense minister before succeeding brother Fidel, named him minister of internal commerce. He was later appointed as minister of planning and economy.
