Fidel y Raul, mis hermanos. La historia secreta (Spanish Edition)

A Spellbinding Revelation

"In the end, in the eyes of God, all the glory and power in the world fit in a grain of rice. He is the one who judges, only Him." With these words, Juanita Castro Ruz concludes her captivating memoir. This is the perfect ending for a book written by a deeply religious and family loving person, not by an unbiassed outsider who would use qualifiers such as merciless tyrants, murderers, thieves, megalomaniacs etc. to describe her brothers for what they really are. Juanita's lenient representation, in my opinion is understandable. Readers expecting a Castro bashing book will be disappointed. In spite of acussing her brothers of betraying the revolution, and exposing some of Fidel's ruthlessness, Juanita refrains from using well deserved negative expressions to describe them. But there are some topics missing in the book: The author doesn't mention that Fidel Castro is among the wealthiest heads of state second only to Queen Elizabeth II with a billion dollars in foreign investments. Communism at its best! (Forbes Magazine, 2003) She doesn't reveal that his beloved brother Raul is addicted to alcohol and suffers from severe bouts of depression, for the man has a very low self esteem. She doesn't mention that Raul as a "compassionate" six-year-old, along with his brother Fidel, loved to perform appendectomies in live ducklings by mercilesslly cutting them in half. (I own the video tape in which Raul laughs at his childhood adventures.) As a Cuban exile that escaped to America in the early sixties and lived through the Castro brother's treachery, I strongly recommend an English translation for the benefit of those Americans who still believe in Santa Claus and think that what happened in Cuba cannot possible replicate in the Land of the Free. Juanita's book made me feel like I was looking at the past through a forbidden keyhole. I've read its 425 pages in one day. I just couldn't put it away. I also recommend this must-read to the many Hollywood useful idiots and T-shi...