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'Juanita (Juana de la Caridad) Castro' (born 6 May, 1933) is the sister of Cuban President Fidel Castro and First Vice President Raúl Castro. She has been living in the United States since 1964, in the neighborhood of Little Havana in Miami, Florida. Juanita owned a Mini Price Pharmacy, which she sold in 2006.
Juanita was born in Birán, near Mayarí, in what is now known as Holguín Province. She was the fourth child of Ángel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz González, and has three brothers — Ramón, Fidel, and Raúl — and three sisters — Angelita, Enma, and Agustina. The family also has two half siblings, Lida and Pedro Emilio, who were raised by Ángel Castro's first wife Maria Luisa Argota.[1]
Juanita, like all the Castro siblings, was active in the Cuban revolution, buying weapons for the 26th of July movement during their campaign against Fulgencio Batista. "In 1958 Juanita, then 24, even traveled to the U.S., to plead for funds.")[1] After the revolution Juanita felt betrayed by the growing influence of Cuban communists over the Cuban government.
Fidel and Raul's government policies clashed with family interests, which included their brother Ramón. When the two revolutionaries insisted on imposing "agrarian reform" on some of the family estates, Ramón, who had worked hard maintaining the property, angrily exploded: "Raul is a dirty little Communist. Some day I am going to kill him."[2]
Eventually Jaunita would withdraw support for her brothers as well, but not before, in a foreshadowing of Juanita's eventual defection in Mexico, "Enma, only mildly involved to begin with, met and married a Mexican, then moved out of the country."[3]
"...Fidel's antireligious measures infuriated his mother. When Castro declared himself a true Marxist-Leninist, Juanita too threw up her hands in despair."[4]
In 1964 she left Cuba, staying with her sister Enma in Mexico City before emigrating to the United States. Upon her arrival in Mexico she even called "a press conference and tearfully announced that she had defected from Cuba. "I cannot longer remain indifferent to what is happening in my country," she said. "My brothers Fidel and Raul have made it an enormous prison surrounded by water. The people are nailed to a cross of torment imposed by international Communism."[5]
Juanita Castro in the immediate post-revolutionary period was "credited with helping at least 200 people to escape the island, and "after the mother [Lina Ruz] died, there was a violent episode when Fidel decided to expropriate the family land once and for all. Juanita started selling the cattle; Fidel flew into a rage, denounced her as a 'counterrevolutionary worm,' and rushed to the Oriente farm."[6]
"It was probably Raul who also cleared the way for her final trip to Mexico."[7]
In 1998, Juanita filed a lawsuit in Spain against her niece Alina Fernández, her brother Fidel Castro's illegitimate daughter, for libel over some passages in Fernández's autobiography, ''Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba,'' that was published the same year. The Spanish court ordered Fernández and Plaza & Janes, the Barcelona Random House division that published the book, to pay $45,000 to Juanita. Juanita claimed the book defamed her family stating: "People who were eating off Fidel's plate yesterday come here and want money and power, so they say whatever they want, even if it's not true". [7]
★ "That's what we really want for our homeland, democracy, freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of movement. All that's what we want and we've struggled for that, at least I have for many years, I've fought for that. And I'm Cuban. "[8]
★ Castro sister hits out at exiles
★ Miami getting a cluster of Castros
★ Financier Arthur Courshon has joined hands with Juanita Castro, Fidel Castro's sister, in the formation of the Marta Abreu Foundation
★ The Life of Juanita Castro
★ Cuban leader's sister not crying, not cheering
★ NPR: Juanita Castro Plots an Independent Path in Exile
1. Bardach, Ann Louise: Cuba Confidential. p57-59
2. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[2]
3. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[3]
4. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871241-1,00.html
5. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[4]
6. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[5]
7.
(Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964, "free archive")[6]
'Juanita (Juana de la Caridad) Castro' (born 6 May, 1933) is the sister of Cuban President Fidel Castro and First Vice President Raúl Castro. She has been living in the United States since 1964, in the neighborhood of Little Havana in Miami, Florida. Juanita owned a Mini Price Pharmacy, which she sold in 2006.
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| Biography |
| Quotes |
| External links |
| References |
Biography
Juanita was born in Birán, near Mayarí, in what is now known as Holguín Province. She was the fourth child of Ángel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz González, and has three brothers — Ramón, Fidel, and Raúl — and three sisters — Angelita, Enma, and Agustina. The family also has two half siblings, Lida and Pedro Emilio, who were raised by Ángel Castro's first wife Maria Luisa Argota.[1]
Juanita, like all the Castro siblings, was active in the Cuban revolution, buying weapons for the 26th of July movement during their campaign against Fulgencio Batista. "In 1958 Juanita, then 24, even traveled to the U.S., to plead for funds.")[1] After the revolution Juanita felt betrayed by the growing influence of Cuban communists over the Cuban government.
Fidel and Raul's government policies clashed with family interests, which included their brother Ramón. When the two revolutionaries insisted on imposing "agrarian reform" on some of the family estates, Ramón, who had worked hard maintaining the property, angrily exploded: "Raul is a dirty little Communist. Some day I am going to kill him."[2]
Eventually Jaunita would withdraw support for her brothers as well, but not before, in a foreshadowing of Juanita's eventual defection in Mexico, "Enma, only mildly involved to begin with, met and married a Mexican, then moved out of the country."[3]
"...Fidel's antireligious measures infuriated his mother. When Castro declared himself a true Marxist-Leninist, Juanita too threw up her hands in despair."[4]
In 1964 she left Cuba, staying with her sister Enma in Mexico City before emigrating to the United States. Upon her arrival in Mexico she even called "a press conference and tearfully announced that she had defected from Cuba. "I cannot longer remain indifferent to what is happening in my country," she said. "My brothers Fidel and Raul have made it an enormous prison surrounded by water. The people are nailed to a cross of torment imposed by international Communism."[5]
Juanita Castro in the immediate post-revolutionary period was "credited with helping at least 200 people to escape the island, and "after the mother [Lina Ruz] died, there was a violent episode when Fidel decided to expropriate the family land once and for all. Juanita started selling the cattle; Fidel flew into a rage, denounced her as a 'counterrevolutionary worm,' and rushed to the Oriente farm."[6]
"It was probably Raul who also cleared the way for her final trip to Mexico."[7]
In 1998, Juanita filed a lawsuit in Spain against her niece Alina Fernández, her brother Fidel Castro's illegitimate daughter, for libel over some passages in Fernández's autobiography, ''Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba,'' that was published the same year. The Spanish court ordered Fernández and Plaza & Janes, the Barcelona Random House division that published the book, to pay $45,000 to Juanita. Juanita claimed the book defamed her family stating: "People who were eating off Fidel's plate yesterday come here and want money and power, so they say whatever they want, even if it's not true". [7]
Quotes
★ "That's what we really want for our homeland, democracy, freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of movement. All that's what we want and we've struggled for that, at least I have for many years, I've fought for that. And I'm Cuban. "[8]
External links
★ Castro sister hits out at exiles
★ Miami getting a cluster of Castros
★ Financier Arthur Courshon has joined hands with Juanita Castro, Fidel Castro's sister, in the formation of the Marta Abreu Foundation
★ The Life of Juanita Castro
★ Cuban leader's sister not crying, not cheering
★ NPR: Juanita Castro Plots an Independent Path in Exile
References
1. Bardach, Ann Louise: Cuba Confidential. p57-59
2. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[2]
3. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[3]
4. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871241-1,00.html
5. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[4]
6. Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964)[5]
7.
(Time Magazine, "The Bitter Family", Friday, Jul. 10, 1964, "free archive")[6]
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