With the end of the year quickly approaching and food shortages worsening, Cubans wonder where they’ll find food to celebrate the New Year. It is a worry that curses most Cubans, except for the Communist Party elite, such as Sandro Castro, Fidel Castro’s grandson. While Cubans starve, the young Castro is living the lifestyle of the rich and communist.
Sandro Castro spares no expense this holiday season in Cuba, showing that he, who just days ago described himself as a “young revolutionary,” is not going hungry like many Cubans who have been unable to enjoy a traditional Cuban Christmas dinner because their salaries are not enough to afford it.
He has been spotted at seafood restaurants, where a ceviche costs about 4,200 Cuban pesos, and this Thursday he visited an Italian restaurant frequented by Laura Daniela Álvarez, his girlfriend.
The grandson of Fidel Castro was seen this Thursday afternoon drinking white wine by the Malecón at Marechiaro Cucina Italiana e Pizzeria Napoletana, where a pizza can cost as much as 3,000 pesos.
At Marechiaro, the cheapest pizza, made with mozzarella cheese and fresh tomatoes, costs 1,750 CUP, almost equivalent to the basic monthly salary in Cuba, set at 2,100 pesos.
In general, the average cost of appetizers and some main dishes ranges between 2,500 and over 4,000 pesos.
White wines, like the one Sandro showcased this afternoon on his Instagram story, are extremely expensive, ranging from 3,500 to 5,000 pesos per bottle.
The dictator’s grandson continues to spark controversy on social media for his luxurious lifestyle and extravagant parties at Bar EFE in El Vedado, which he manages.
Sandro Castro is indeed a “young revolutionary,” as he describes himself. That was the purpose of his grandfather’s socialist revolution, to steal from the masses so the elite can live like royalty. This is socialism in action.
He deserves nothing but scorn as a useless parasite, but in a way he’s pitiful–a little schmuck who’d be a total nothing if he didn’t belong to la famiglia Castro, aka the Cosa Castro or Castro crime family. He’s like Fredo Corleone, only perkier and less self-aware. There’s no point expecting better of him, of course, but his great uncle the “general” should really have done something about this ongoing spectacle by now.