The Cuban leader with female admirers in New York, 1959 Photo: GETTY
Posted on 09/27/2009 4:35:08 PM PDT by Steelfish
Fidel Castro's Cuba Full Of His Offspring After Years Of Womanising By El Commandante
Fidel Castro, Cuba's long-standing dictator, has fathered at least 10 children by a string of women, according to a new book.
Philip Hart 26 Sep 2009
The Cuban leader with female admirers in New York, 1959 [Pic in URL]
Fidel Castro is renowned in Cuba for his verbosity and longevity. But his long-suffering compatriots know little about another sphere where El Commandante has proved prolific - his private life.
Discussing his womanising ways is strictly taboo on the Caribbean communist outpost, even on an island where the gossip grapevine flourishes in the absence of a free press.
But a long-time Cuba-watcher has now revealed the scale of his philandering and the existence of at least 10 offspring. That is more than previously believed - but very possibly not the full tally.
When journalist Ann Louise Bardach asked Castro how many children he had during an interview with Vanity Fair in 1993, he smiled and answered "almost a tribe".
During the research for Without Fidel, her new book chronicling the lives of Castro and his brother, Raul, to be published by Scribner, she discovered how true that observation was.
Castro, now 83, was a dashing young man whose good looks and rebel swagger clearly leant him a strong sexual allure during the years before and after the 1959 revolution. Indeed, media reports describe female fans swooning after he arrived triumphantly in Havana and during early trips to the US.
He had one child, Fidelito (Little Fidel), with his first wife Myrta Diaz-Balart in 1949 and five boys between 1962 and 1974 with Dalia Soto del Valle, a little-seen companion whom he is said to have secretly married in 1980. Remarkably, she was first shown on Cuban...
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Uh-oh. Bad seed.
Not surprising. Both his parents were sluts.
Infidel Castro.
When was Castro a dashing young man with good looks? I always thought he was very homely.
Another French hero
It’s amazing how much charm comes with being a blood-thirsty dictator. Women were dying (not) to sleep with him, I’ll bet.
Read this and thought of you PING.
Heh...Fidel now wears a colostomy bag.
The Cuban leader with female admirers in New York, 1959 Photo: GETTY
A year or two ago I heard a talk by one of his illegitimate daughters, who eventually fled to the US and now tries to tell people what conditions in Cuba are really like.
It's GOOD to be the Dictator!
I bet you did!
Kinda give the title “Father of his Country” a whole different spin...
Isn’t this pretty typical in cults?
Ann Bardach is not a reliable source on Cuban affairs.
She is from a family of Stalinists who believe that Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are heroes.
She hates Cuban exiles and wrote a libelous article about Cuban exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa in the New Republic
in the mid-1990s.
I think she is his only daughter. Her name is Alina Fernandez and she wrote a book that I recommend highly. She has a radio show in Miami.
I wonder if this is true, considering Castro is gay as a $3 bill.
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