Posted on 05/10/2015 10:51:58 AM PDT by george76
For 17 years, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez served as bodyguard to Fidel Castro. But when he became disillusioned with the Cuban dictators hypocrisy and tried to retire in 1994, Castro had him thrown in prison. Sanchez made 10 attempts to escape the island, finally making it to the US in 2008. Now he reveals all in his new book, The Double Life of Fidel Castro. In this excerpt, Sanchez exposes El Jefes privileged life.
To Cubans, Fidel Castro presents himself as a man of the people, claiming to make only 900 pesos a month (about $38) and owning no property other than a modest fishermans hut somewhere on the coast.
In truth, El Jefe is worth hundreds of millions and owns 20 properties, including a chalet where he goes duck hunting every year and a private marina in the Bay of Pigs.
His main home is Punto Cero, where his family was kept hidden away. No one knew until recently that he had a wife, Dalia, with whom he had five sons, all with A names: Alexis, Alex, Alejandro, Antonio and Angelito. Even Fidels own brother, Raúl, did not meet them until the children were adults.
Few, meanwhile, know that Fidel has had at least three children out of wedlock, including one with his personal interpreter and longtime mistress, Juanita.
Castro may not be as ostentatious as Khadafy or Saddam Hussein, but hes rich beyond most peoples dreams. His simple appearance is due more to laziness than austerity.
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None of his siblings was ever invited to or set foot on Cayo Piedra... visitors to the island .. Ted Turner; .. Barbara Walters; and Erich Honecker, communist leader of the German Democratic Republic
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From each according to their powerlessness, to each according to their power.
FUBO
This is what Socialist aka Liberal believe in EQUALITY. Except some are more equal than others. Uncle Fidel has shown that yet there are morons who support this man, sheesh.
“...yet there are morons who support this man.”
There are millions who support, revere and idolize the POS.
Note that the article said visitors to the island were rare.
But he claimed two notable Americans visited: Ted Turner and Barbara Walters.
Ol babba wawwa admitted to getting banged by el jeffe.
None were named Assh### after their father?
Yes but this is good income inequality.
That’s okay.
Fidel will have nothing but misery in hell for eternity. And none of what he had here will matter one iota there.
I doubt Ted Turner and Barbara Walters ever saw it.
The impression one gets of Cuba is a decrepit country that’s a museum to the failure of Communism.
Of course, don’t expect those who idolize the Castro Brothers to see what they’ve done to the country.
that was Castro’s fair share
Sounds like Obama.
He, and many like him, have been able to make a lot of people’s lives hell on Earth.
It just proves the basic fact about dictators: They’re just thieves with power.
I wonder if Old Fuzzy Face took his boyfriend Gunga Dan down there?
Send this story to every professor in the US.
The Hollywood elite’s worship of this SOB has always been an extremely repulsive spectacle. What would I give to have anyone of them to really experience life there with the jails, etc, sort of like the late Vic Morrow’s sequence in the 1983 “Twilight Zone” movie (yes I know Morrow died accidentally during the production of that part of the movie).
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