According to a brief note made today by Cuban state media, Celia and Abel Hart Santamaría died Sunday afternoon in an automobile accident in Havana. Celia (45 years old) and Abel (48 years old) are the children of Armando Hart Dávalos, a member of the Cuban nomenklatura (first Minister of Education served as the Minister of Culture) and Haydee Santamaría (one of the women who participated in the Moncada Barracks attack in 1953).

Celia Hart recently achieved notoriety as a visible head of a Trotsky faction of the Cuban nomenklatura. She was critical of capitalist state models in post-Soviet Russia, China and Vietnam. She was also linked within the Cuba’s nomenklatura, which was highly critical of Raulismo and his entrepreneurial generals even though such criticism was never made in public within the Island, the media, or public appearances but she did express outside of Cuba as a spokeswoman of that group.

[H/T: La Nueva Cuba]

See also: Sectors of Cuban nomenklatura against Chinese-like transition

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