The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo
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In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.
Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sánchez was party to his secret life – because everything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from several continents were trained, to his immense personal fortune – including a huge property portfolio, a secret paradise island, and seizure of public money – as well as his relationship with his family and his nine children from five different partners.
Sanchez's tell-all expose reveals countless state secrets and the many sides of the Cuban monarch: genius war leader in Nicaragua and Angola, paranoid autocrat at home, master spy, Machiavellian diplomat, and accomplice to drug traffickers. This extraordinary testimony makes us re-examine everything we thought we knew about the Cuban story and Fidel Castro Ruz.
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Juan Reinaldo Sanchez. (2015). The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Juan Reinaldo Sanchez. 2015. The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years As Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years As Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Juan Reinaldo Sanchez. The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years As Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.
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Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sánchez was party to his secret life – because everything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from several continents were trained, to his immense personal fortune – including a huge property portfolio, a secret paradise island, and seizure of public money – as well as his relationship with his family and his nine children from five different partners.
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This loyal bodyguard-turned-Miami exile delivers a lively expose of the state secrets and peccadillos of his former boss and idol: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Sanchez packs his memoir with fascinating anecdotes, in which Castro's health scares and passion for fishing appear alongside snappy appraisals of his numerous mistresses and children. To millions, Castro is a hero who has outlasted ten U.S. presidents, created an elite spy service, and commanded the Cuban armies that drove South Africa's apartheid regime from Angola. But for Sanchez, Castro doubles as an egocentric, paranoid autocrat who betrayed his revolution's promise--a despot who basks in a secret island paradise, plots with cocaine traffickers, and sanctioned the author's torture and imprisonment for retiring two years early. While equating communism with slavery, Castro's former bodyguard hints at his own lingering admiration for El Lider Maximo and even calls out U.S. corporations for historically exploiting Cuban workers. VERDICT Readers seeking scope--or verifiability--should choose Tad Szulc's Fidel or Volker Skierka's Fidel Castro, but Sanchez's nonstop revelations, energetic voice, and cognitive dissonance are liable to entertain and intrigue almost any audience.--Michael Rodriguez, Hodges Univ. Lib., Naples, FL
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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