LatinNews Daily - 09 December 2025

*Cuba’s supreme court has announced that the country’s former economy minister, Alejandro Gil (2018-2024), has been sentenced to life imprisonment for various crimes, including espionage, acts detrimental to economic activity or contracting, bribery, theft, and damage of documents or other objects in official custody. He also received a second concurrent 20-year prison sentence for continuous bribery as a means to commit falsification of public documents, influence peddling, and tax evasion. The sentences were announced following a closed-door trial although specifics were not provided as to what Gil had actually done or for whom he was spying. The investigation into Gil was first announced by the Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) government led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel in March 2024. The most senior official to fall from favour since the dismissals of then vice president Carlos Lage (1993-2009) and foreign minister Felipe Pérez Roque (1999-2009) in 2009, Gil was the public face of economic measures which have widely been considered a disaster, including an austerity drive and efforts to unify the country’s currency system.

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