By Laura Italiano. November 27, am Updated November 28, am. With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people. Castro also bedded his English interpreter, his French interpreter, and a Cuban airline stewardess who attended him on foreign trips, Sanchez wrote.
Castro kept 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean nation, including his own island, accessed via a yacht decorated entirely in exotic wood imported from Angola, Sanchez wrote. Deep poverty persisted β teen prostitution, crumbling houses, food rations. Political opponents were executed by the thousands by firing squad, or sentenced to decades of hard labor.
Castro had as many as 11 children with four women β only two of whom he was married to β and numerous other mistresses, Sanchez wrote. The only woman who dared to cause him any public scandal was his rebellious daughter, Alina Fernandez Revuelta. Several years later, in , Fidel learned through his secret service that Alina was plotting to flee to the United States.
Jose Delgado Castro, according to Sanchez. Two months later, Alina put on a wig, packed a false Spanish passport, and, with the help of a network of international accomplices, sneaked out of Cuba.
I demand a report! I want to know how all this could have happened! They met in Castro noticed her in the audience as he gave an open-air speech, Sanchez remembered. After being vetted by his aide-de-camp, del Valle was installed in a discreet house just outside Havana. Eventually, they married and had five sons, who grew up in hidden luxury on an estate outside Havana. Disloyalty exacted a heavy price. Dissidents were jailed for as little as handing out books on democracy. Revolutionary Gen.
