Posted on 11/27/2016 4:05:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
Castro, who died Friday night at 90, made a personal fortune offering safe haven to drug traffickers, bedded a bevy of women over the decades, and once threatened his own brother, Raul, with execution when the brother lapsed into alcoholism in the ’90s...
Amazingly, most Cubans had no idea how, or even where, their secretive strongman actually lived.
Even his first and second wives were kept out of the public eye — as was their leader’s two-timing.
Castro cheated on his first wife, the upper-middle-class Mirta Diaz-Balart, with Natalia Revuelta.
“With her green eyes, her perfect face and her natural charm,” Revuelta was one of Havana’s most beautiful women, Sanchez wrote — no matter that she, too, was married at the start of their mid-’50s affair.
Diaz-Balart would bear Castro his first “official” son, Fidel Jr. or “Fidelito,” and Revuelta would bear Castro his only daughter, Alina.
Castro cheated, too, on his second wife, seducing “comrade Celia Sanchez, his private secretary, confidante and guard dog for 30 or so years,” Sanchez wrote.
Castro also bedded his English interpreter, his French interpreter, and a Cuban airline stewardess who attended him on foreign trips, Sanchez wrote.
“He doubtless had other relationships that I did not know about,” Sanchez wrote.
Castro kept 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean nation, including his own island, accessed via a yacht decorated entirely in exotic wood imported from Angola, Sanchez wrote.
Taking control of Cuba on New Year’s Day 1959, after his guerrilla army routed the quarter-century-long dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, Castro vowed that unlike his hated predecessor, he’d share the nation’s wealth with its poorest citizens.
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Deep poverty persisted — teen prostitution, crumbling houses, food rations. Political opponents were executed by the thousands by firing squad, or sentenced to decades of hard labor.
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Yeah, because he was such a hottie with that filthy beard and face moles.
Just like limousine liberals here in the USA, who live in their gated 99% white communities while they ask everybody else to embrace "multiculturalism" and live in slums.
The Clinton’s would have been our Castro..
We’ve hopefully avoided that.
Fidel Castro, ordinary psychopath
Awe, s***. There’s a whole family of Castros. Kids n’ all.
Chavez and now Maduro are/were the same way. Liquor, drugs, luxury homes with fleets of automobiles, all the women they want. It’s the pot of gold at the end of the socialist dictator rainbow.
The ultimate result of communism is always the elites living in luxury while everybody else lives in grinding poverty. Look at the former Soviet Union, China, Viet Nam, Venezuela, North Korea, East Germany etc.
I think you may be on to something...
Pig filth rotting in hell.
Don’t forget the stench of cigar smoke from his chain smoking, and body odor from wearing fatigues in the tropical heat. Gag.
And after I criticized the Pope for feeling sorry for this animal castro on a Catholic thread here on Free Republic...a fellow freeper wrote that I should pray for pope francis...my response was Nah I’m not that forgiving. I hope Trump arranges it so that Cuba loses money in dealing with us...what a scumbag this muzzie sotoero is...And oh ya screw fidel may he rot in hell.
Every despot has this all the time.
Good riddance to the monster. However, brother Raul is still very much alive and kicking. And I see Fidel had several children; will the Castros rule that poor Cuban island forever?
Good heavens, people! Cut the poor dead bastard a little slack! Surely he’s entitled to a few rewards by way of nourishing his great vision! Plus, think of the day to day nitty gritty of running a tyrannical police state. So many people to jail, beat and kill! Exhausting! (especially with Che gone).
A guy who can send you to prison or death with a word unless you hop in bed with him can suddenly become attractive.
Why do you think Kings and Nobles had so many partners? It was not because they were hot.
The Teddy Kennedy grease fire in hell just doubled in size!
Hillary worked for 30 yrs and accomplished less.
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