Posted on 12/01/2016 10:37:05 AM PST by Enlightened1
While fellow communists and assorted global leftist elites are using the occasion of his death to praise Fidel Castro as a hero of the poor, reports from both defectors within Castro’s world and journalists using publicly available information have estimated the Castro family fortune to be in the millions. The closest realistic number estimating Castro’s net worth appeared in the magazine Forbes in 2006, whose research found that Castro was hiding a $900 million fortune from his starving people.
“To be conservative, we don’t try to estimate any past profits he may have pocketed, though we have heard rumors of large stashes in Swiss bank accounts,” Forbes wrote at the time. “Castro, for the record disagrees, insisting his personal net worth is zero.”
In addition to government sources of revenue, many have speculated that his close ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group that funds its activities with cocaine trafficking, has paid its tributes to Havana in order to continue to receive safe haven there.
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His official salary ostensibly was 900 pesos a month.
The average Cuban earns half that, if they’re lucky.
Communism made the Castros obscenely rich.
Many would agree with you wholeheartedly- they dress differently as they scam their populace and rip them off any way that they may angle. The aggrandizement of the central government made huge steps after the Civil War.
The Castro fortune is way beyond the billion dollars that they claim. I wonder what the Cuban people actually know of any of this fortune and how they reconcile their poverty.
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