Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto
Deceased Person
1900 – 2009
Who was Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto?
Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto was the widow of a wealthy Cuban businessman who died in poverty, unwilling to leave the island and unable to access her funds because of the US embargo on trade with Cuba. After her husband's death in 1951, and following the takeover of the Island under a Communist regime, she had become an anachronism, and ended her life in poverty, bereft of her wealth due to the U.S. embargo, and granted a tiny pension by the Castro government. A victim of political circumstance, she died there at the age of 108, and was buried next to her husband.
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1900
St. John's - Nationality
- Canada
- Died
- Apr 3, 2009
Havana - Resting place
- Colon Cemetery, Havana
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on July 23, 2013
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