A suggestion made on the gross sales web site Revolico has generated one thing to speak about, as it’s asking for half 1,000,000 {dollars} for a big mansion close to the emblematic Punto Cero, the place the dictator Fidel Castro and his household lived after taking energy on the Island.
The mansion is positioned in Jaimanitas, particularly on ninth Avenue between 236 and 238, and was constructed within the Fifties.
In response to the unbiased media CubaNetthe house was used as a “fundamental means” of the Council of State till the top of the 90s, when it grew to become the property of the Vilaragut household, which had shut ties to the regime.
The property grew to become within the arms of the late Ángel Vilaragut Sánchez, a private good friend of Castro, and at the moment belongs to his son, Ángel Vilaragut Montes de Oca, former first vice minister of the Ministry of Building.
The supply in Revolico highlights the proximity that this mansion has to the world that grew to become, in its time, probably the most restricted areas on the Island, with nearly 2,000 sq. meters and an extra space of 6,000 sq. meters in usufruct.
This sale attracts consideration as a result of, only a decade in the past, the land couldn’t be supplied with out a collection of strict permits from the Ministry of the Inside (Minint), the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) and different Castro authorities.
A number of sources consulted by the unbiased media level out that this sale seems to be a part of a broader technique by the Cuban authorities to generate revenue in {dollars}, disguised as particular person home gross sales, however that in actuality they’re a part of a extra advanced plan.
And for months now, there have been quite a few commercials for luxurious mansions and residences on the market, at extreme costs that nobody within the nation, apart from these on the prime of energy, may pay.
These provides are seen in areas corresponding to Playa and Nuevo Vedado, and they’re houses that served as momentary residences for senior officers of the regime, referred to as “protocol homes.”
The intermediaries in command of the sale of those homes embody figures near the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Inside, corresponding to Brian Caraballo, nephew of a excessive official linked to GAESA, and Abelardo Díaz, a former Minint official who’s now devoted to the acquisition and sale of homes and luxurious automobiles.
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