"apuntador" de Lotería...Secretario de su "Núcleo"

Question

De apuntador de Lotería en los años cincuenta a Secretario de su Núcleo en un Partido Comunista de Cuba ya cansado hasta del comunismo cubano.

I would love help with the words in quotes above. Thanks!

Answer 1

su núcleo must a be a section o group of the Cuban Communist Party, with a certain degree of autonomy.

apuntador de lotería is the person who goes from place to place writing down the numbers and bets of the clandestine lottery players.

So he experienced some promotion from one occupation to another.

Answer 2

This is the sentence as it appears. The text is full of incomplete sentences. The context here is the manual labor positions this person held. The went from being a "apuntador" de Lotería to Secretario de su "Núcleo"...

Thanks!

Answer 3

Hi, but this sentence seems a little bit incomplete to me...