Comments on: Rewriting History a [c]astro Family Affair

By: theCardinal

theCardinal — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:14:38 +0000

This book should get zero play. Despite her name and family Juanita has been a non-entity in the community practically her entire time here. This I find to be a tad irresponsible - she more than anyone knows what FC was capable of doing yet has for years been on the sidelines so to speak.

That she speaks now...and doesn't reveal much just tells me that she just needs to pad her account cuz Social Security won't cut it and Obama is going to slice her Medicare. We should treat her to the same silence she has provided us in the last several years.

By: asombra

asombra — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:06:36 +0000

What Juanita Castro thinks or feels about her vile, hideous family is her private business, but the very least she owes the Cuban people is extreme discretion and the most exquisite tact imaginable. The fact she dared to say as much as a single word publicly criticizing Cuban exiles for celebrating her bastard brother's possible demise sank her irredeemably in my estimation, and she has absolutely nothing else to say to me except, perhaps, "Forgive me." I find the very idea of this stupid, useless book offensive. What difference does it make now if she was once involved somehow with the CIA? Who the hell cares? What has really been gained or accomplished by the book, except to make the woman money and get her free and undeserved publicity? Is she contributing her earnings to anything worthwhile in terms of promoting Cuba's freedom? Not that I'm aware of, and I'm not holding my breath. Just get her out of my face.

By: Mr. Mojito

Mr. Mojito — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:02:41 +0000

Juanita was always very close with Raul, who is the one that let her leave Cuba with 9 large suitcases.

I've always wondered if she was an Cuban agent, who sort of plays the bad cop and let's out occasional damning things - but downplays the reality.

By: antonio2009

antonio2009 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:42:25 +0000

"In the early 1920s the peasant Francisco Ruz and his family arrived at Manacas looking for work and settled in a bohio half a mile from the main house. The plantation master employed their illiterate teenager Lina Ruz Gonzalez as a household servant and quickly seduced her. When Lina was fourteen years old, she gave birth on April 2, 1923, to their daughter Angela, named after the forty-seven-year-old father." Antonio Rafael de la Cova, "The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution" (2007), pp. 5-6. "On February 25, 1943, two months before Lina Ruz married Angel Castro, she was legally inscribed by her father in the Cueto courthouse in Mayari municipality. He swore that she was born in Cueto on July 23, 1908." Ibid., p. 284, n. 16.

By: Larry Daley

Larry Daley — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:47:01 +0000

Although such is not approved today in this country and rightly so in my opinion.

one might keep in mind that as in the Taino era, in rural Oriente Province of that time and in more remote areas until much later ... female sexual initiation commonly occurred --in and out of marriage-- soon after puberty ...

Boys too were commonly initiated as soon as they were able ...

Then there was no shame attached to that ...

By: 65alejo

65alejo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:41:57 +0000

It was in 1953 not 1952 that Castro launched the attack on the Moncada Barrracks on July 26th. He was still 26 years old at the time.

By: Rayarena

Rayarena — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:33:56 +0000

I haven't read Juanita's book, however, I looked it over and from what I saw, I do not like it. Let's not forget that this is the same woman who sued her niece, Alina Castro, because she claims that Alina's tell-all biography was slanderous. [By the way, I have read Alina's book and I think that it's great. It provides a lot of information that was previously little or unknown. Juanita's book by comparison [from what I saw of it] is whitewashed.] This is the same woman who publicly denounced the Cuban community for celebrating her brother's death when we thought that he had died. Juanita--who was formerly at the foreground of denouncing her brother's abuses-- seems to have changed a bit. She may be loyal to her family, but her family, also, has a big, big debt to pay the Cuban people. It's not the time to whitewash their sins if this in any way compromises Cuba's history. If she can't see this, then she has serious issues.