Already
since late 1988, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, former Fidel's bodyguard, realized that
his boss was not only involved in the cocaine trade, but even ran those illegal
operations like a true Mafia godfather. It happened that on one occasion he
had accidentally overheard a conversation between General Jose Abrantes and
Fidel, about a Cuban boatman that from the United States used to do business
with the regime; and whom Fidel, through Abrantes, authorized to spend a week's
holiday in Santa María del Mar with his parents in Cuba, for seventy-five
thousand dollars, with the alibi of making the boatman's parents believe that his son was a Cuban
agent infiltrated in the USA, and that his life would be in grave danger if they
did not keep the secret of his visit to Cuba. Later,
during the trial of Cause No 1, former bodyguard suffers another bitter
experience that tells in his book "The Hidden Life of Fidel Castro"
as I quote: "At one point, the prosecution focused specifically on the
issue of a hangar located in Varadero airport, where the drug was stored in the
way to the United States along with other contraband. Suddenly my mind
cleared. I remembered having accompanied Fidel, Abrantes, Tony de la Guardia
and other MC Department officials to that same hangar two years ago. After
leaving the palace in a three-vehicle convoy, we had arrived, after an hour
long drive, to that building, located on the right side of the Pan American
Highway. That day I had stayed outside the building while Abrantes and Tony de
la Guardia showed Fidel an alleged storage container of rum bottles and cigars
for export. Then, just after a quarter of an hour from our arrival, we were on
our way back towards the presidential palace. At that moment of the process, I
realized that two years ago Fidel had not gone to see a storage container of
rum and cigars -How, indeed, could a head of state lose three hours going to
see something so trivial and uninteresting?-, but a supply of white powder
waiting to be sent to Florida. Because, as usual, the Commander in Chief,
distrustful of his subordinates and cautious to the extreme, wanted to check
everything with his own eyes, even the smallest details to ensure that they had
taken the precise arrangements to conceal the contraband." Can anyone have
any doubt about the Castros' illegitimacy? To be continued...
