MIAMI.-The Cuban actress Ana de Armas and Manuel Anido Cuesta, stepson of Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel, were captured this week walking through Madrid as a couple. This is confirmed by the most recent cover of the Spanish magazine HELLO!. The couple was photographed kissing, and leaving a luxurious restaurant, accompanied by other people.
Outside the luxurious Numa Pomilio restaurant next to Armas and Anido, Hola’s photos show Cuban lawyers Rodolfo and Lourdes Dávalos, known for representing the Cuban regime in the “London Trial.”
Precisely this Tuesday, the London Court of Appeal rejected the appeal filed by the National Bank of Cuba (BNC) against the CRF investment fund, which claims non-payments valued at 72 million euros, according to the agency. EFE.
The court ruling indicated that CRF It is not a “vulture fund” but the legitimate creditor of the former central bank for the collection of the debt contracted since 1980. The photos of the protagonist of Blonde with the stepson of the Cuban dictator and the Dávalos come to light a day after this failed.
Cubanet has previously investigated this family and its links to the Cuban dictatorship.
Who are the Dávalos?
More than a surname, Dávalos is a brand of reference for politicians and foreign investors interested in Cuba. It has also been a key player in all international litigation in which the Cuban Government has taken part; especially in those processes where he has been implicated in breaches of contracts, confiscations, accumulated debts, deception of businessmen, blackmail, espionage, etc.
Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández He advised the first major foreign investment made in Cuba in the late 1990s by the Spanish group Sol-Meliá, and participated in the creation of off-shore companies in Panama and Europe. His name, associated with the Mossack Fonseca law firm, was one of the first to surface when the Panama Papers scandal broke out, and he also appears in Panama’s commercial registries as company secretary which, in turn, links him to the Italian Mauro Casagrandi, who worked as an agent for the Cuban secret services until his break with the regime in the early 1990s.
Dávalos Fernández was part of the group of lawyers that defended the case of the five Cuban agents of the Wasp Network convicted of espionage in the United States. Likewise, he was a protagonist in the litigation against the Chilean Max Marambio – a former agent of the regime – and his company Río Zaza, and in the case of the child Elián González.
His son, Rodolfo Dávalos León, is a self-confessed worshiper of the North American lifestyle. In 2016 he founded the company Caribbean Ventures Management LLC, incorporated in the state of Delaware, but has its office in Coral Gables, Miami. This “small” business emerged in the heat of the thaw promoted by the Obama administration and focused on search operations and management of gastronomy services in Cuba.
Dávalos Jr. is very well connected with the highest levels of Castro’s power and also with American democrats, as demonstrated by his photos with the late General Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja – former owner of GAESA -, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Ben Rhodes—Obama-era Deputy National Security Advisor—and Senator Patrick Leahy.
For her part, Lourdes Dávalos, Rodolfo’s daughter, is an associate at the Uría Menéndez law firm, one of the most important in Europe, specialized in Commercial Law. Thanks to her influential father, the young woman, as soon as she graduated, was admitted to that important firm, from which she has served the interests of the dictatorship and her family.
