Castros Ex-Bodyguard: Dictator Once Threatened To Off Raul

By Evan Gahr The Daily Caller As Cuban-Americans in Miami raucously celebrated the longest-ruling Communist despot finally croaking President Barack Obama with his typical ignorant political claptrap offered a nuanced thought and claimed Fidel Castros true character awaits historical determination. But somebody who saw the worlds longest ruling Communist up close and personal for nearly 20 years already reached his verdict: Castro was a womanizing plutocrat. So ruthless that in the 1980s he arranged the execution of an accomplished Cuban military leader to appease international critics and even threatened his own brother Raul with a similar fate. The New York Post today cites these fascinating revelations from the little-noticed recent 2015 memoir by Juan Renaldo Sanchez who served for 17 years as Castros bodyguard before breaking ranks. Recounting his book The Double Lives of Fidel Castro reporter Laura Italiano says Castro made a fortune offering safe haven to drug traffickers bedded a bevy of women over the decades." Read the full article: http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/27/castros-ex-bodyguard-dictator-once-threatened-to-off-raul/