By Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
In The Double lifetime of Fidel Castro, considered one of Castro's infantrymen 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 get together to his mystery lifestyles – simply because every thing round Castro used to be hidden. From the ghost city within which guerrillas from a number of continents have been knowledgeable, to his monstrous own fortune – together with an enormous estate portfolio, a mystery paradise island, and seizure of public funds – in addition to his dating together with his relations and his 9 childrens from 5 various partners.
Sanchez's tell-all reveal finds numerous country secrets and techniques and the numerous aspects of the Cuban monarch: genius warfare chief in Nicaragua and Angola, paranoid autocrat at domestic, grasp undercover agent, Machiavellian diplomat, and companion to drug traffickers. This awesome testimony makes us re-evaluate every thing we notion we knew in regards to the Cuban tale and Fidel Castro Ruz.
Read Online or Download The double life of Fidel Castro: my 17 years as personal bodyguard to El Líder Máximo PDF
Similar caribbean & latin american books
Theory and Practice of Sociocriticism: Thl Vol 53 (Theory and History of Literature)
Thought and perform of Sociocriticism used to be first released in 1988. Minnesota Archive variations makes use of electronic expertise to make long-unavailable books once more obtainable, and are released unaltered from the unique college of Minnesota Press variations. Edmond Cros is a number one French Hispanicist whose paintings is exclusive in Continental idea since it brings Spanish and Mexican texts into present literary debates, that have to date founded almost always at the French and German traditions.
Reading Borges after Benjamin : allegory, afterlife, and the writing of history
Including unique readings of a few of Benjamin's best essays, this e-book examines a chain of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.
- Immigration and the Challenge of Education: A Social Drama Analysis in South Central Los Angeles
- Democracy, America, and the Age of Globalization
- A Companion to Magical Realism
- Increasing Formality and Productivity of Bolivian Firms (World Bank Country Study)
- Latin Literature (Classical Foundations)
Additional info for The double life of Fidel Castro: my 17 years as personal bodyguard to El Líder Máximo
Example text
2 JUAN SÁNCHEZ, FIDEL’S BODYGUARD For as far back as I can remember, I’ve been passionate about firearms. It was not altogether a coincidence when, at the peak of my career in 1992, I won the rank of best pistol shooter in Cuba in a contest that brought together the cream of the crop: my New Year’s gift when I was six was my first cowboy set with a magnificent silver cap gun. Over the following years I regularly received a new outfit and, above all, a new gun. My childhood was thus dedicated to putting imaginary Indians and fearful bandits out of action.
Mother of five of Fidel’s children, Dalia Soto del Valle was the woman who had secretly shared his life since 1961—although Cubans did not learn of her existence until the 2000s. Finally there was Professor Eugenio Selman, Fidel’s personal doctor until 2010, whose professional competence and political conversation were highly valued by El Comandante. The primary function of this elegant, considerate, and universally respected man was obviously to look after the chief’s health—but Fidel’s personal doctor also ministered to the whole of his entourage.
Until her death from lung cancer in 1980, Celia participated closely in all the historic events of the Revolution; back in 1952, she was one of the first women to oppose Batista’s dictatorship, and then to join Castro’s subversive movement, the M26. In the Sierra Maestra she had worked as a courier, carrying telegrams in bouquets of flowers to get past the police. Celia also coordinated actions between the resistance fighters and clandestine urban cells; after the Triumph of the Revolution, she was rewarded with various official posts, including that of secretary of the Council of State, presided over by Fidel.