Indeed!
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.”
He'd HAVE to be better!
Indeed!
I can't belive Fidel is still in power. It speaks badly of the US.
Why burn it? Just send it to Cindy Sheehan - she loves sniffing dictator jocks straps.
One of the few shows I miss since getting rid of the tv. The Green Teabagger, Big Steamy Pile...
One reason I love TiVo is MXC!!
At least Bill Clinton got a tax break for donating his skivvies to charity. The skid marks were an added bonus for the poor.
I'll bet Cindy wants those, too. LOL!
He's got that right. Foreign businesses in Cuba pay their workers salaries not to the workers but to Castro. The workers end up seeing just a few pesos of their pay by the time Fidel takes his cut.
You mean to say they have underwear in Cuba???
Must be some skid marks.....
What kind of capitalist is he? He could be selling it on eBay for big bucks.
Ah yes, the little known "Serrano hams for geriatric health" diet...
u goota love soclialists...
black Mercedes-Benz 560s.
ah yes...i guess it is true somepeople are more equal then others...
I thought this post was going to have something to do with Fidel getting too much hot sauce.
Should have invaded Cuba the day after the Berlin Wall fell.
LOL - love the Cartman reference!
LOL Hey, how are you doing...still in Baghdad?
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