One of the deposit numbers may have been 440274110072004. Unfortunately, no one has a receipt. Lately, rumours have begun circulating that Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, is involved in secret negotiations with the UK for the return of the money. Some say the UK representative is Baroness Scotland, a Foreign Office minister, others say it is Vivian Brown, head of export credits guarantees at the Bank of England. Though no one would be allowed off the island, newly rich descendants would have the right to buy a house and a used car in Cuba.
People come from as far away as Texas and California looking for proof.
Thousands of other claimants are the impoverished descendants of an illegitimate son of Sister Maria Isabela Manso. She was banished to a convent after an affair with a family slave, and willed her legacy to the poor of Remedios. I do whatever I can to help. These people are doing this because of the poverty in the country. Before, if one talked of inheritances, people took no notice, but now everyone is looking.