The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo
Written by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez and Axel Gyldén
Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
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In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.
Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez was party to his secret life–because everything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from several continents were trained, to his immense personal fortune—including a huge property portfolio, a secret paradise island, and seizure of public money—as well as his relationship with his family and his nine children from five different partners.
Sanchez's tell-all exposé reveals countless state secrets and the many sides of the Cuban monarch: genius war leader in Nicaragua and Angola, paranoid autocrat at home, master spy, Machiavellian diplomat, and accomplice to drug traffickers. This extraordinary testimony makes us re-examine everything we thought we knew about the Cuban story and Fidel Castro Ruz.
Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
Lieutenant Colonel Juan Reinaldo Sánchez was Fidel Castro’s personal bodyguard for seventeen years before being imprisoned in 1994 for the “crime” of wanting to retire early. He left Cuba in 2008 after ten unsuccessful bids to escape. He wrote this book with Axel Gyldén, French star reporter at L’Express. Sánchez now lives in Miami with his family.
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Reviews for The Double Life of Fidel Castro
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent account of a man and a place few have been able to truly understand. The hypocrisy of those in power is truly absolute.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Don’t understand the stellar reviews. This guy reading the book doesn’t even know how to pronounce “St. Tropez”. It was oddly superficial, but Castro is a complete hypocrite and a dunce, so we agree on this at least.