2023-12-05 04:42:00
Juanita Castro, the younger sister of former Cuban leaders Fidel and Raúl whom she opposed for decades, died this Monday at 90 years in Miamireported a journalist close to the family.
“This is the news that I never wanted to give, but that, as her spokesperson in the last three decades of her life, I have to tell. Today, Juanita Castro, an exceptional woman, preceded us on the path of life and death. tireless fighter for the cause of her Cuba that she loved so much“María Antonieta Collins, author of the memoirs of the deceased, who lived in Miami since the 1960s, published on Instagram.
Juanita Castro, the fifth daughter of Ángel Castro and Lina Ruz, left Cuba in 1964 on the way to Mexico, where his sister Enma lived, and settled in Miami, after breaking up with his brothers Fidel – who died in Havana in 2016 – and Raúl due to disagreements about the direction the Revolution had taken, the agency stated AFP.
Juanita Castro: complaints against her brothers Fidel and Raúl and collaboration with the CIA to overthrow them
He then went into exile in MiamiFrom where He publicly denounced the work of his brothers in front of the island and He even collaborated with the CIA, under the alias “Donna”, in plans to overthrow them.as she herself confessed.
In the Florida city, the youngest of the Castros He opened a pharmacy where he worked for decades until he decided to retire in 2006.
Her dual role as sister of the leaders of communist Cuba and member of the exile in Florida was difficult for her to bear, as she recounted in her memoirs, titled “Fidel and Raúl, my brothers, the secret history“.
There he says that he initially supported the Cuban Revolution led by his brother Fidel against the dictator Flugencio Batista, but he also details the enormous disappointment he felt when he saw that his older brother was ordering the execution of his opponents and leading the island towards communism.
“Without a doubt, I have suffered more than the rest of the exile because on no side of the Straits of Florida do they give me respite and few understand the paradox of my life,” he wrote. “For those of Cuba I am a deserter because I left and denounced the established regime. For many in Miami I am persona ‘non grata’ for being the sister of Fidel and Raúl“, he pointed.
According to the media outlet Univisión, the woman died of natural causes in a Miami hospital.
“His sister Emma and his extended family ask for privacy at this very painful time. There will be no interviews and according to his will his funeral will be private,” Marie Antoinette Collins wrote in her Instagram post.
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