Cuban dictatorship arrests wife of purged minister, daughter incommunicado

With the daughter hiding and silent, the wife of Alejandro Gil, the Minister of the Economy removed by the Cuban Communist Party and currently under criminal investigation, has been arrested by State Security. Due to the criminal nature of the Castro dictatorship, there is no reason to believe Gil was not involved in corrupt activities. The question is who was involved with him and what were they up to that led to him being chosen to take the fall. This is socialism in action.

Via Martí Noticias (my translation):

Gil’s wife has also been arrested and his daughter incommunicado, says a nephew of the former minister

Gina M. González, the wife of former Minister of the Economy Alejandro Gil, dismissed at the end of February and under investigation for corruption, is also detained, said her nephew Daniel Alejandro Trujillo Gil, a criminal lawyer residing in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

“My uncle Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández and his wife, Gina María González García, are both under investigation by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Cuba. They are being held incommunicado outside their home in a location unknown to me,” Trujillo Gil told Martí Noticias, from a social media profile of his mother, María Victoria Gil, sister of the dismissed official.

Daniel Alejandro is the only son of María Victoria, who recently visited the island.

According to the lawyer, his mother was experiencing a hypertension crisis upon her return to Spain due to “the unjust slanders she has received on social media.”

“My cousin Laura María Gil González is indeed at her home but is incommunicado. My cousin Alejandro Arnaldo Gil González is at his home with his wife and 7-year-old son, with no restrictions of any kind since he has always resided separately, at his wife’s house in Marianao,” he added.

On María Victoria Gil’s Facebook profile, a post was published on Tuesday thanking the island’s government for not “bothering” her during her visit to Cuba, and the announcers of Cuban television for their attitude “in such a difficult moment” of her life.

“I love my Homeland and adore my People. I am incapable of profiting from the sacrifice of my fellow beings. I love them immeasurably and will always stand by the truth, honesty, and justice. An infinite hug from the depths of my heart,” María Victoria wrote.

Her son asserts that his mother is innocent of all corruption allegations proliferating on social media: “If my mother had benefited from corruption, she wouldn’t have been able to return to Spain, although she is a Spanish citizen, for Cuba she is a Cuban citizen and susceptible to being tried for criminal acts. My mother has had a great reputation and the campaign against her is too unjust.”

Dismissal and arrest of Gil

The Minister of Economy, a close ally of Cuba’s ruler, Miguel Díaz-Canel, was summarily dismissed at the end of February. Last Thursday, a surprising official note announced that he was being investigated for “corruption, simulation, and insensitivity,” without going into details.

The note also clarified that Gil Fernández resigned from his position as a deputy of the National Assembly of People’s Power and from the Central Committee of the Party. Martí Noticias tried to contact the wife, sister, and two children of the former minister by phone without success.

According to several sources of the Miami Herald, Gil’s dismissal is related to the detention of a powerful magnate from Ciego de Ávila, in the center of the country. Fernando Javier Albán, owner of AgroIndustrial Media Luna, a medium-sized private company, was arrested after Gil’s downfall, who allegedly was one of the officials protecting him.

Several sources in Ciego de Ávila confirmed these allegations to Martí Noticias and assured that there are also provincial officials detained for the case.

Gil, a man of Díaz-Canel

Gil Fernández was one of the most important men in Díaz-Canel’s government, who brought him out of anonymity in 2018 and promoted him to the Ministry of Economy and Planning. A year later, he was appointed vice prime minister and entrusted with the implementation of a series of structural reforms of the Cuban economy known as “Task Order”.

The closeness between the current ruler and the former minister was such that Díaz-Canel is listed as the tutor of Gil’s doctoral thesis. Even after the minister’s dismissal announced in early February, the ruler allowed himself to thank X for his work and subsequently congratulate him on his birthday.

Who are the wife and daughter of former Minister Gil?

At the time of his arrest, the wife of former Minister Gil, Gina María González García, worked as a commercial manager for BisMusic, a Record Label and Music Publisher of the Cuban regime.

González García was a passionate defender of Miguel Díaz-Canel on social media, where countless tweets in favor of the president are still preserved. “Love is repaid with love,” she replied to Díaz-Canel in response to the president’s gratitude to her husband, already ousted.

It was common to see her alongside Gil on official trips or political events, an attitude of the new leadership that contrasted with the official secrecy that enveloped Fidel and Raúl Castro for years.

On the other hand, Gil’s daughter, Laura María Gil González, is a specialist in the Imports Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, where she handles various collaboration projects, commercial services, and e-commerce.

Neither the Attorney General’s Office nor the State Council have responded to Martí Noticias’ inquiries about the process against the former minister.