Maria Victoria Gil Discloses How She Learned About Her Family's Eviction in Cuba

Maria Victoria Gil, sister of former Cuban Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández, shared that she discovered her brother's family's eviction from their Miramar home not through family but from three journalists who contacted her simultaneously on Wednesday.

"I didn't hear it from you. I found out from Mario Pentón, Mailyn Legañoa, and you three who wrote to me almost simultaneously informing me that my family had been evicted from the Miramar house," she stated in an interview with Tania Costa from CiberCuba.

Upon receiving these messages, Maria Victoria reached out to her niece, Laura Maria Gil González, who confirmed that the operation began at seven in the morning on Wednesday after several days of prior notice to the family.

The niece chose not to inform her earlier to spare her any distress. "She hadn't told me anything to prevent me from being stressed, asking questions, writing, and so on, knowing that the entire house had already been packed," Maria Victoria explained.

The regime relocated Alejandro Gil's family from their Playa residence to a family property in Santos Suárez, Diez de Octubre municipality, which had remained closed for two and a half to three years.

This family home was also targeted for confiscation by the authorities, accusing that the donation Maria Victoria made to her niece was "fictitious."

Nonetheless, upon reviewing the documentation, the authorities acknowledged the legality of the transfer. "They reviewed the documents and realized that the donation I made to my niece was legitimate, legal. I conducted it with a public notary at a notary office in Plaza de la Revolución, a legal donation from aunt to niece, without any trickery," she affirmed.

Maria Victoria conveyed that she donated the property—an inheritance from her parents, architect Esperanza Fernández Castel and Miguel Ángel Gil Castillo—because she resides in Spain and had no plans to return to Cuba, while her family was living in poor conditions.

Alejandro Gil himself appeared before notary Lázaro Corzo and relinquished his share of the property, assigning it entirely to his sister, who then donated it to her niece.

As a result, instead of leaving the family "literally on the street," the State returned the Santos Suárez property in improved condition.

"They received the house painted, with walls, ceilings, doors, and windows," she noted, though acknowledged that the change is not equivalent: "Comparing a house in Miramar to an apartment in Santos Suárez is not the same, the child is used to riding her tricycle through the large hallway of the Miramar house."

Maria Victoria attributed the outcome to media pressure and an international campaign that brought attention to the case, and took the opportunity to refute circulating rumors: "The house has two floors, but below lives a deputy minister, whose ministry I don't know or his name, and my brother lives upstairs."

The Miramar property was an assignment from the now-defunct CESE (State Committee for Economic Cooperation), obtained through a state exchange when the niece gave up the family home.

The eviction was the execution of the property confiscation sentence included in the life sentence ratified by the Supreme Court on January 24, 2026, following the life sentence handed down on December 8, 2025, for espionage and corruption.

In March 2026, Maria Victoria requested that her brother be recognized as a political prisoner before the international community.

In the interview, Maria Victoria also emphasized that the investigation against her brother started long before his dismissal: "My brother's case has been brewing for some time. I have now confirmed it with this situation," and warned that once she can read the final conclusions from the Attorney General's Office, "the prosecutors involved in this procedure will have to resign."