It manages much of Cuba's lucrative tourist industry (such as the company Gaviota) along with agriculture, import-export businesses, retail stores and other enterprises.

With the victory of the Cuban Revolution, he commanded the headquarters of the National Revolutionary Police, with whose troops he participated in the defense of Playa Girón.

He fought in the Ogaden War fighting for Ethiopia as substitute for the chief of the military mission (Major General Arnaldo Ochoa).

General Julio Casas Regueiro died in Havana, Cuba, on September 3, 2011, as a consequence of a cardiorespiratory arrest.

Inhabitants of the II Front, members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, leaders of the Party and the Government in the province and the municipality, arrived here to, on behalf of the Cuban people bury Julio Casas, who died on September 3.