Posted on 03/23/2006 8:56:57 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
A former assistant to Fidel Castro and his brother Raul is now in Miami and he’s airing the Cuban leader’s dirty laundry – including why Fidel burns his underwear.
Delfin Fernandez, 44, defected in Spain in 1999 on a trip to Europe to drop off Raul's daughter in Italy and pick up a Rotweiller in Germany for Fidel. He moved to Miami less than a year ago.
"I was assigned to take care of the people closest to Fidel, so that they don't lack anything and don't feel threatened by anything inside or outside of Cuba,” he told the Miami Herald.
Among Fernandez’ revelations to the Herald:
Chief of bodyguards Bienvenido "Chicho” Perez told him Fidel has his underwear burned to foil any assassination plots with chemicals during laundering.
Fidel has a passion for Serrano hams and sent Fernandez to Spain to bring $2,500 worth of the delicacy back to Cuba.
To fool would-be assassins, Cuba's leader always travels around Havana in a six- or seven-car motorcade led by three nearly identical black Mercedes-Benz 560s. The Castro brothers have as many as 300 cars for themselves, their families and their bodyguards.
Fidel turns 80 this year and has become obsessed with his health. The Castro brothers each have their own clinics and their own doctors in Havana's Council of State Building, and Fidel has also built a multimillion-dollar clinic on the grounds of his Havana estate.
"If Castro has a heart attack or he dies, the only people who will know about it will be his family, the guards working at the time, and Raul,” Fernandez said.
When Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina tried to open Cuba to the world, he was sacked by Castro and placed under house arrest for two years.
Raul is more "practical and family oriented” than his older brother.
"Raul has a transition plan,” Fernandez said. "I think Raul would want to lead an economic transformation, and ultimately find a way to retire peacefully with his family with all the money he has stolen from the Cuban people over the years.”
Fernandez said he carried suitcases full of cash out of Cuba for the Castro brothers.
He told the Herald: "The initial idea of Fidel was good. What happened was, the course he took with the revolution was wrong. It has dissolved into this unstoppable, insatiable corruption without limits, a vast lie. The people are in misery. Cuba's people have been enslaved as cheap labor for foreign businessmen.”
Very, very strange fellow....
Now if somebody would just burn his underwear with him still in it.
Did Oliver Stone catch any of these magical moments on film ?
It's even worse than I thought. They're running out of soap.
4 times a year, ya know.
Amazing how the Left adores these Gangsters...
Heh. I didn't think Cubans went in for spicy food.
Ha! Nice!
Fidel Castro Burns His Underwear
Thank God for favors great and small.
Castro's underwear is probably as full of crap as he is.
"Dude!...."
"I don't have anything coming out of my @$$!!"
Screw you guys...
Perhaps we should respect his "authoritie!!!"
Maybe we should run Cartman against Chafee, maybe even McCain...
Slogan: "I hate you guys!"
Lighting farts will do that.
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