Juanita Castro
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Juanita (Juana de la Caridad) Castro (born May 6, 1933) is the sister of Cuban President Fidel Castro and first vice President Raúl Castro. She has been living in the United States since 1964, in the neighborhood of Little Havana in Miami, Florida, where she owns a Mini Price Pharmacy.
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[edit] Biography
Juanita was born in Birán, near Mayarí, in what is now known as Holguín Province. She was the fourth child of Ángel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz González, and has three brothers; Ramón, Fidel and Raúl, and three sisters; Angelita, Enma and Agustina. The family also have two half siblings, Lida and Pedro Emilio who were raised by Ángel Castro's first wife Maria Luisa Argota.[1]
Juanita, like all the Castro siblings was active in the Cuban revolution, buying weapons for the 26th of July movement during their campaign against Fulgencio Batista. After the revolution Juanita felt betrayed by the growing influence of Cuban communists over the Cuban government. In 1964 she left Cuba staying with her sister Enma in Mexico city before emigrating to the United States.[1]
In 1998, Juanita filed a lawsuit in Spain against her niece Alina Fernández, her brother Fidel Castro's illegitimate daughter, for libel over some passages in Fernández's autobiography, Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba. The Spanish court ordered Fernández and Plaza & Janes, the Barcelona Random House division that published the book, to pay $45,000 to Juanita. Juanita claimed the book defamed her family stating: "People who were eating off Fidel's plate yesterday come here and want money and power, so they say whatever they want, even if it's not true". [1]
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- "That's what we really want for our homeland, democracy, freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of movement. All that's what we want and we've struggled for that, at least I have for many years, I've fought for that. And I'm Cuban. "[2]
[edit] External links
- Castro sister hits out at exiles
- Miami getting a cluster of Castros
- Financier Arthur Courshon has joined hands with Juanita Castro, Fidel Castro's sister, in the formation of the Marta Abreu Foundation
- The Life of Juanita Castro
- Cuban leader's sister not crying, not cheering
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