By Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
In The Double lifetime of Fidel Castro, one in all Castro's squaddies of 17 years breaks his silence and stocks his memoir of years of provider, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the infamous dictator, and his dramatic break out from Cuba.
Responsible for shielding the Lider maximo for 2 many years, Juan Reinaldo Sánchez was once social gathering to his mystery existence – simply because every little thing round Castro was once hidden. From the ghost city within which guerrillas from a number of continents have been knowledgeable, to his tremendous own fortune – together with an enormous estate portfolio, a mystery paradise island, and seizure of public funds – in addition to his dating along with his family members and his 9 youngsters from 5 assorted partners.
Sanchez's tell-all disclose finds numerous nation secrets and techniques and the numerous facets of the Cuban monarch: genius struggle chief in Nicaragua and Angola, paranoid autocrat at domestic, grasp undercover agent, Machiavellian diplomat, and associate to drug traffickers. This remarkable testimony makes us think again every thing we suggestion we knew in regards to the Cuban tale and Fidel Castro Ruz.
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As Aquarama II moved off, Fidel—an incomparable raconteur—would regale his guest with an account of the tragic landing on that now celebrated bay. We would watch him from the rear deck, launching into great explanations and pointing to different parts of that swampy, mosquito-infested area, a teacher dispensing an open-air history lesson to his erstwhile student. “You see down there at the bottom of the bay—that’s Playa Larga! And there, at the eastern entrance to the bay is Playa Girón! m. on April 17, 1961, the contingent of fourteen hundred CIA-trained Cuban exiles landed in an attempted invasion aimed at overthrowing the nation.
I did not see the people who had brought me up for another forty years. A chapter had closed and I went back to live with my mother, who, unlike my uncle and grandmother, remained a convinced revolutionary, although she was still as poor as ever. Through a friend, I got a job in a construction unit called the Special Works Program. Its function? Building houses for the leaders of the Revolution. So there I was, a construction worker, carrying bags of cement, pushing wheelbarrows of sand, and placing bricks on top of each other.
Fidel Castro was an excellent diver. I am in a good position to know: throughout the years I spent in his service, it was my job to assist him during underwater fishing expeditions—in order, principally, to protect him against attacks by sharks, barracudas, and swordfish. I am sure that many envied me this aquatic mission, much more than my other duties such as keeping his diary or organizing security during his trips abroad. … Though he liked basketball and hunting duck, deep-sea diving was his real passion.