HAVANA TIMES – The recent dismissals of Alejandro Gil, Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba, as well as those of the ministers of Science, Technology and Environment, and the Food Industry, in addition to the president of the Central Bank, stirred up controversy this week.
Obviously, the most visible and important face is that of Gil, whose last name is the same as a term used in Cuba to describe the innocent, the foolish, and which is currently trending on social media.
In particular, some words from Maria Victoria Gil, Alejandro’s sister, caught people’s attention and went viral on social media.
According to her statement, she feels hurt and disappointed with the misgovernment and shamelessness, as she said in her own words. Alejandro has devoted his life to a corrupt, failed, fundamentally flawed system, but whenever there is someone who bothers them, they make them disappear. The latter is quite dubious because he was never even seen to discomfort the system with the controversial issue of small and medium-sized enterprises. He was always a puppet who repeated the same litany and the same lies over and over again, and he wasn’t seen embarrassed in any of his public appearances.
I don’t believe the two siblings think alike, but if they do, I doubt Alejandro would dare to publicly acknowledge it. All the sacrifice that, according to María Victoria, the former minister made was in vain because the Cuban economy is worse off than when he took office. He may be very hurt and disappointed as she says, but I don’t agree on the fact that he doesn’t deserve it because he really did everything to end up dismissed, and it’s easy when you lose privileges to loosen your tongue a little. Perhaps the pain is more for having had to lie knowingly, for ha
