María Victoria Gil, sister of the former Cuban Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil Fernández, revealed that she found out about the
"I didn't find out from you. I found out from Mario Pentón, Mailyn Legañoa, and from you, the three of you, who practically wrote to me at the same time and told me that my family had been evicted from the house in Miramar," he stated in an interview with Tania Costa from CiberCuba.
After receiving the messages, María Victoria contacted her niece Laura María Gil González, who confirmed that the operation had started at seven in the morning on Wednesday, after several days of prior notice to the family.
The niece had chosen not to inform her beforehand to spare her the anguish. "She didn't tell me anything so I wouldn't be stressed asking her, writing to her, in short, I had already tidied up the whole house and everything," María Victoria explained.
The regime evicted Alejandro Gil's family from their house in Playa and relocated them to a family property in Santos Suárez, in the Diez de Octubre municipality, which had been closed for between two and a half to three years.
That family house was the asset that the ruling also aimed to confiscate, claiming that the donation María Victoria made to her niece was "fictitious."
However, the authorities reviewed the documentation and acknowledged the legality of the transfer. "They reviewed the documentation and realized that the donation I made to my niece was legitimate and legal. I carried it out before a public notary in a notary office in Plaza de la Revolución, a legal donation from aunt to niece, with no tricks, absolutely nothing," he stated.
María Victoria explained that she donated the property—inherited from her parents, the architect Esperanza Fernández Castel and Miguel Ángel Gil Castillo—because she resides in Spain and had no intention of returning to Cuba, while her family lived in precarious conditions.
Alejandro Gil himself had appeared before the notary Lázaro Corzo and renounced his equitable share of the property, granting 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 property of Santos Suárez in better condition.
"They were given the house painted, walls, ceilings, doors, windows," he specified, although he acknowledged that the change is not equivalent: "Comparing a house in Miramar to an apartment in Santos Suárez is not the same; the girl is used to riding her tricycle through the huge hall of the house in Miramar."
María Victoria attributed the outcome to media pressure and an international campaign that brought attention to the case, and she took the opportunity to refute information that circulated on social media: "The house has two floors, but below lives a deputy minister whose ministry I do not know nor do I know his name, and on the upper floor lives my brother."
The Miramar property was an assignment from the CESE (State Committee for Economic Collaboration), a now-defunct state-owned enterprise, acquired through a state swap when the niece handed over the family home.
The eviction is the execution of the penalty of asset confiscation included in the life sentence ratified by the Supreme Court on January 24, 2026, following the life sentence issued on December 8, 2025 for espionage and corruption.
In March 2026, María Victoria requested that her brother be recognized as a political prisoner before the international community.
In the interview, María Victoria also insisted that the investigation against her brother began long before his dismissal: "What is happening with my brother has been brewing for some time. I've now confirmed it with this situation," and she warned that when she is able to read the final conclusions of the Attorney General's Office, "the prosecutors who participated in this procedure will have to resign."
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