Miami-based retired pharmacist Juanita Castro, 76, has written a book entitled My Brothers Fidel and Raúl: The Secret Story, set to be published October 26.
Juanita has reportedly not spoken to her elder brothers since she left Cuba in 1964, following a dispute in which she attempted to prevent Fidel from expropriating their family landholdings. Fidel called Juanita a “counterrevolutionary worm”, and she responded by telling a Miami radio station, ”My brothers Fidel and Raúl have made [Cuba] an enormous prison surrounded by water. The people are nailed to a cross of torment imposed by international Communism.”
In recent years, however, she seems to have softened her stance, saying, when she heard about Fidel’s illness in 2006, ”the blood, it’s very strong…he’s my brother”.
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