Manuela, the premium Spanish of Fidel that has 103 years of age, learned the news – LA NACION (Argentina)

Along with Victoria, are the only relatives european of the cuban leader who died last night

Manuela Argiz, with 103 years of age, was anoticiada of the death of his cousin, a cuban. Photo: AFP

GALICIA, Spain.- The “Cuba” in galicia, the small town of Láncara, Lugo, Spain, which is originally an Angel, the father of Fidel Castro, has shown its sympathy with an impromptu act in front of the casa natal and a visit to Manuela and Victoria, premiums of the late cuban leader.

the mayor of The town came in a procession of cars to the nursing home where he lives Manuela Argiz, premium second of Fidel, which, with its 103 years of age, took the news in a natural way.

I’m sorry, but some day it had to happen”, say the present, ” replied the old lady to learn of the death of the leader of the cuban revolution.

Manuela lives in a care home in Lugo. Photo: AFP

She and Victoria, a raw carnal commander that looked at the door of his home and the slogan “Until victory, always”, but to whom a disease wiped out the memory, are the closest relatives of Fidel that are in this municipality gallego of 2,700 inhabitants. Here was born in 1875 his father, Angel Castro Argiz, a farmer in Láncara, who emigrated 17 years ago and managed to make a fortune in the caribbean island.

Victoria López Castro, the direct premium of Fidel also lives in a care home. Has always spoken of his family with much affection, and throughout his life he collected photographs and newspaper clippings of her family famous.

According to his friends, Victoria said that his cousin Fidel often they have been supported, even by sending financial contributions, and who has maintained a relationship with their family members on the other side of the Atlantic. She was on the island on two occasions, during a year in 1982, and on another visit in 2006.

Fidel Castro visited Láncara in 1992, invited by the late former president of the Xunta and the founder of the Popular Party, Manuel Fraga, and then declared himself “the grandson of poor emigrants” and “legitimate child of Galicia”.

There, in a popular pilgrimage, with bands, orchestras, octopus, and empanadas, played Castro and Fraga a game of dominoes, which won the Spanish political.

The late revolutionary leader was known, also, the home of his parent in the Armea of the Above, also accompanied by Fraga, who, in turn, visited the caribbean island to get to know the house where he lived with his own father migrated.

Fidel Castro confessed then that he had lived one of the happiest days of your life.

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