Cuban police arrest top aide to parliament speaker Alarcón

A senior aide to Ricardo Alarcón, Cuba’s long-serving parliament president, was arrested along with his wife, a former intelligence agent

By Juan O. Tamayo

jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com

The top aide to the president of Cuba’s parliament, Ricardo Alarcón, and his wife — both former intelligence agents — have been in police custody for two months in a case that might well be aimed at ousting Alarcón, according to a Havana colleague.

Miguel Alvarez and Mercedes Arce, in their mid-50s, were detained on March 3 in Havana and remained in custody as of Monday for investigation on alleged corruption charges, the colleague added.

Alvarez was long known as Alarcón’s right-hand man in his job as senior advisor on international and political affairs, and he sat in on many of Alarcón’s meetings with visiting dignitaries and journalists.

Also see the Cuba Confidential story of May 22^nd, “Washington Post Clueless Again: Wants Spy Admitted to US” https://cubaconfidential.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/washington-post-clueless-again-wants-spy-admitted-to-us/