Zhu was rehabilitated in 1978, and rose as an economic planner, largely on his own merit, since he had no base of support in the army, party or bureaucracy.

CNN: Red star

The new head of the Central Bank, Luis Diego Castellanos, an obscure elderly economist, is a close colleague of Jorge Giordani, the old-fashioned development planner who leads the economic team.

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