He doesn't have an X account. He's not on Facebook. Nobody knows where he lives or what kind of life he leads. In fact, people don't have a clue who he is. I've never heard of him, says a bakery worker in Bauta, a municipality west of Havana. No idea who he is, a housewife from Pinar del Rio shrugs, when asked if she knows Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga, the great-nephew of Fidel and Raul Castro.
they won't sit with novices or enthusiastic tourists visiting Calle Ocho, the heart of the disapora in Miami, to admire the nostalgic murals of Cuban exile, but rather be able to play one-on-one with their own kind, those who know Little Havana, people who left Cuba and helped build a city on the swamp that was Miami, who spend long hours thinking about what a return would be like and who never stop talking about politics.
Cuba's former deputy prime minister and ex-economy minister Alejandro Gil Fernandez, who just two years ago was considered the right-hand man of President Miguel Diaz-Canel, has been sentenced in two separate trials to life imprisonment and 20 years in prison for a dozen crimes considered treason. Gil's sentences which the Cuban people had been eagerly awaiting were announced on Monday by the Cuban Supreme People's Court (TSP). The decisions put an end to the political and judicial maneuvering by the regime that began with the official's sudden dismissal in February 2024.