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Angel Castro was 45, with a wife and five children who did not live at the estate, when he became involved with Fidel’s mother, a 17-year-old servant. They had seven children.
Fidel Castro: Among world's most influential leaders for a half-century. I thought of the grandfather I never met because he spent 30 years in Fidel's prisons, dying before he could reunite with ...
For 17 years, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez served as bodyguard to Fidel Castro. ... His main home is Punto Cero, where his family was kept hidden away. No one knew until recently that he had a wife, ...
The perception in Cuba of Fidel’s abiding presence behind the throne has been a key to Raúl’s steady hand in weathering frustrations at home—Cubans were livid, for example, at his ...
For nearly a half-century, Fidel Castro helped bring the world to the brink of nuclear war, ... For the first time, Cubans were allowed to buy and sell their homes and cars.
MIAMI — Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA against their communist government, has died in Miami at 90.Florida had been her home since ...
A galley proof, in The New York Times’s morgue, of an advance obituary for Fidel Castro — this one from 1971. ... We were supposed to just get up and fly home.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, ... the Soviet Union in 1991 and the loss of the $6 billion in annual subsidies Moscow had provided Cuba eventually forced Castro to call home his troops.