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Thursday, Cuban landowner María Antonia Puyol, close friend of the late former Federal Fidel Castro, died .
The Doña, as it was called on the island, owned the estate of Alcázar, with more than 50 caballerias land located in the hamlet of Romana Siete, a few kilometers from Contramaestre in Santiago from Cuba.
Maria Antonia had dozens of workers and peasants working for her. He never married or had children.
Castro expropriated Cuban peasants from their land with the first agrarian reform law, signed on May 17, 1959, which set 30 caballerias (402 hectares) as much land as they could. own a person But his childhood friend, who supported him in his fight, did not touch him.
Puyol grew up in Birán, the city where the Castros were born. He has said many times with them spent his childhood and adolescence, riding and fishing.
The Government stated that it was an example for the island's pastoralists: The Doña won more than 200 awards at national agricultural fairs and in Santo Domingo, Mexico in Colombia and Venezuela. Alcázar gave birth to the best offspring of genetic breeding of cattle in Cuba.
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