The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Líder Máximo
Juan Reinaldo Sánchez, Axel Gyldén
Language: English
Pages: 179
ISBN: 2:00347094
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.
Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sánchez was party to his secret life - because everything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from several continents were trained, to his immense personal fortune - including a huge property portfolio, a secret paradise island, and seizure of public money - as well as his relationship with his family and his nine children from five different partners.
Sanchez's tell-all expose reveals countless state secrets and the many sides of the Cuban monarch: genius war leader in Nicaragua and Angola, paranoid autocrat at home, master spy, Machiavellian diplomat, and accomplice to drug traffickers. This extraordinary testimony makes us re-examine everything we thought we knew about the Cuban story and Fidel Castro Ruz.
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large black CEO chair, in which no other human being had ever sat. A glass of his favorite drink of whisky on the rocks in one hand, he would immerse himself in the summarized reports from the intelligence services, go through the review of the international press prepared by his cabinet, or scour the telegrams from Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, and Reuters. El Jefe would also take the opportunity to discuss current affairs with José Naranjo, the faithful aide-de-camp known as Pepín,
Cero de Guanabo a prerequisite. * * * The golden age of this “campus of revolution” had occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. At the time, it also played host to soldiers from other regions of the world such as militants or terrorists from the Basque separatist movement ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Liberty), the IRA (Irish Republican Army), Yasser Arafat’s Fatah, George Habash’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Polisario Front (a popular movement in Western
remembered his name, however—and after that did not think much more about it.… However, the story had a follow-up that occurred in Miami; I relate the main details because they are so revealing of how the Cuban security services work. As everyone knows, tens of thousands of exiles live in that southern Florida metropolis, among them a not insignificant number of former Cuban secret service agents who, given my pedigree, naturally made contact with me when I finally managed to escape from Cuba
blended easily into the background. World opinion was shocked when it was discovered that thousands of Cubans had arrived in Luanda. Not just the Americans but also the Soviets! Fidel had not thought it necessary to warn the Kremlin about his great maneuvers; faced with the fait accompli, the Soviet leaders were flabbergasted, and with good reason: it was the first time, since the colonial period had begun at the start of the century, that an entire army had arrived on the African continent from
more serious: I had been chosen by the minister of the interior (the MININT, a then-current abbreviation) to follow a special program. Unknown to me, the intelligence services of MININT had followed and observed me for several months. They had questioned my entourage, drawn up my psychological profile, realized that all the members of my family who had stayed in Cuba were real “Fidelists,” and concluded that my “revolutionary profile” was above suspicion. The MININT therefore proposed that I
