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 dictator’s 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 Jefe’s” 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 “fisherman’s 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 Fidel’s 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 he’s rich beyond most people’s 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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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 “fisherman’s 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.
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Castro has always been a Communist in name only. It was for the consumption of Western Liberals and it worked. He’s really just another mass murdering, sociopathic dictator, whose real heroes are Hitler and Alexander the Great.
castro is soetoro’s idol.
Kinda hovering around the poverty line just like the hildebeast and family being dead ass broke and barely making it now. Kinda like putin livin’ in a shack.
“From each according to his means...To each according to his needs...”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others...”
“Do as I say, not as I do...”
“This, what is it in itself, and by itself, according to its proper constitution? What is the substance of it...?” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations...
To be a Communist, Socialist, Progressive, etc is to be a hypocrit...That is their nature...
Buck Ofama
Actors and others who idolize castro.
THE USEFUL IDIOTS
http://www.therealcuba.com/The%20Useful%20Idiots.htm
Fidel Castro says his economic system is failing
Former Cuban president says state-run model ‘doesn’t even work for us’ in offhand remark to US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/09/fidel-castro-cuba-economic-model
But socialism has been very good for old Chevys.
This is no surprise at all. The U.S., as far as I know, is the only country with sanctions against Cuba for many years.
When I read the article I was struck by the fact that I missed the reports by both Barber Walters and Ted Turner’s CNN on the disparity of Castro’s image verses his hidden wealth
It’s not MY humdreds of millions of dollars. It’s the people’s hundreds of millions. - Fidel “even his own a-hole rejected him” Castro
They are the left’s approved 1%. castro, soros, clintons..ibama
Chapter 10....
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”
I wonder how many times a US submarine periscope has had cross hairs on Fidel as he sipped a Mojito on the beach?
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