How did Fidel and Raul manipulate "Ochoa's Purge",
to procure their innocence in a scandal in which they were not only linked, but
were its masterminds and top leaders? Located in Raul's office, on the 4th
floor of MINFAR building, the Castros watched live the entire course of Causes
no. 1 and no. 2 (Cases Ochoa and Abrantes, respectively), through a closed circuit
video; which served to broadcast both trials on Cuban television. Of
course, the transmission was always delayed, applying suitable censorship when
some fragments threatened to set too close to the truth, which could highlight
or discover Fidel and Raul Castro's responsibility in the matter. Fidel ordered
a system of secret communication with General Juan Escalona Regueira, Chairman of
the Military Tribunal, which his former bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez
(present at all times), reveals in his book "The Hidden Life of Fidel
Castro", title that, by the way, I consider very euphemistic as it should
have been called "The dirty life of Fidel Castro". Well, Fidel could
afford to cautiously allert the presiding judge, by a pilot light, indicating
when it was convenient to proceed to interrupt the session. According to Juan
Reinaldo Sanchez, when Fidel emitted his signal to General Juan Escalona to
disrupt the trial, Raul gave the following order: "Let chief bodyguard
know that the members of the Court will come here any moment." And so it
happened; few minutes later, the presiding judge, the prosecutor and the jurymen
appeared before Fidel to receive instructions. We all know that it's that false
and cynical how Castro's justice works. To be continued...
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