Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: The lavish lifestyle of Cuban dictator Raul Castro’s family

Cuba’s socialist revolution made all animals equal, and some animals infinitely more equal than the others.

Via CubaNet:

Raul Castro’s grandchildren and relatives: the other rotten apples in the barrel

mages of one of Fidel Castro’s grandsons bragging about the Mercedes Benz he toys around with are barely the tip of the iceberg vis a vis the family clan. The Castro’s have ruled the island for more than half a century as if it were their family farm. Although most of them have chosen a life away from politics, filled with leisure and glamour, like typical privileged children they feel part of the political power that their blood relation allows them insofar as circumventing norms, loyalties and even Miguel Diaz-Canel himself. who bears the misfortune of not being a Castro, much less part of the military caste that manipulates him from the shadows.

Alex Castro Soto del Valle, known as “Roberto Nabo Duro” on social media, who is the husband of Kenelma Carvajal, today’s vice minister of Culture, labeled his nephew Sandro as the rotten apple of the family. By doing so, he not only was attempting to make us forget his own lazy history as “bon vivant” (taking advantage of his closeness to his dictator father in order to pursue photography while staying close to the family mansion at Punto Cero, for example), but also, and what is more important: that the mantle of humility with which they have manipulated the impoverished masses does not come naturally to any of them.

Sandro’s case, and even his uncle Alex’s, are not the only ones, neither are they at the top of the pyramid of untouchables, in spite of the system’s hypocrisy they reveal. Theirs is a communist Olympus, where the families of Mariela and Alejandro Castro Espín, two of the four children of Raul Castro and Vilma Espin Guillois, have taken the place reserved before 2008 for Antonio Castro Soto del Valle with this playboy passions like golf and luxury cars, his questionable businesses with Italian Sandro Cristoforetti, his European vacations with the Hidalgo family, the owners of Globalia, and the scandal caused by his ex-girlfriend Dashiell Torralba in 2002 about life inside the mansion of Fidel Castro and Dalia Soto del Valle.

There’s lots of talk about Fidel Castro’s sons and grandchildren, but only a few more facts are known. They are credited with several bar and restaurant businesses in Havana, and Tony and Sandro’s social media is followed closely, as are those of other members of the lesser known side of the Castro family that moved to Miami following the decline and eventual demise of Fidel Castro –as if they anticipated some sort of retaliation within the clan- but little is said about Raul Castro’s descendants and their private life is seldom revealed to the public.

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2 thoughts on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: The lavish lifestyle of Cuban dictator Raul Castro’s family”

  1. And no, these useless parasites are not ashamed of their lifestyle in a ruined third-world shithole, which is why they can’t stay away from social media to flaunt it. Apparently, they consider themselves some sort of aristocracy, both superior and entitled, and they have zero problem with openly living high on the hog despite never having done a damn thing of any use to Cuba or ordinary Cubans. I expect all or most of them have money and property abroad, to which they can retire if Castro, Inc. falls. Talk about leeches.

  2. However much Batista may have enriched himself from being in power, the difference is that under Batista Cuba’s economy was booming, there were ZERO shortages of food, consumer goods or medical supplies, and people were free to live pretty much as they pleased. Batista was never even remotely interested in controlling people’s lives, let alone their minds–he simply wanted to be a VIP with money and status.

    That is obviously NOT the case in Castro’s Cuba, a dystopian and oppressive disaster for all except the ruling class, which doesn’t give a shit about “the people” and is absolutely ready to mow them down if they threaten to topple the regime. Also, Batista WOULD have stepped away from power MUCH sooner than the Castro dictatorship has “retired.” I’ll say it again: Cubans were at best infantile fools–only they were worse.

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