Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta (born 1 September 1950, Morón, Cuba) is an economist, librarian, and Varela project coordinator.
He published reports about problems of the transport facilities, the food supply and the housing shortage.
[1] He was arrested on 19 March 2003, during the Black Spring, a general crackdown on opposition activists.
[4] In 2007, International Society for Human Rights reported that he was in an acutely critical condition, having lost 60% of his former weight.
[1] Villarreal was released on 13 July 2010 following an agreement between Fidel Castro, the Catholic Church, and the government of Spain.