Fidel Castro lived a life of luxury and bedded several women while Cubans starved, claims longtime bodyguard
Juan Reinaldo Sanchez describes in great detail his former boss's hidden life of political ruthlessness, mistresses and greed in his book.
To the world, Fidel Castro presented himself as a modest man of the people. Many a time, he claimed to live in a "fisherman's hut" somewhere on the beach, and claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month.
However, it is no secret that Castro's public image was more fiction than fact, and rather a carefully crafted myth, the New York Post's Laura Italiano writes.
Castro's longtime bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, wrote in his book, 'The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Líder Maximo,' that "while his people suffered, Fidel Castro lived in comfort — keeping everything, including his eight children, his many mistresses, even his wife, a secret."