Castro was lying multi millionair fraud.

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FIDEL Castro the restless revolutionary had no time for pleasure, despising holidays as bourgeois and claiming to live in a fisherman’s hut. His only luxury was the cigars that he continually chomped.

Or so he insisted to fellow Cubans who endured decades of abject poverty, crumbling housing and food rationing during his long rule. However, the reality — carefully kept from public consumption thanks to his iron grip on the media and public discourse — was very different.

A prodigious womaniser and food connoisseur who kept some 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean — including a private island he used to visit on his beautiful yacht — Castro was a complete fraud.

The man who spent his life railing against the excesses of capitalism lived like a king — and a very debauched one at that.

Western observers have long suspected that ‘El Comandante’ — The Commander — was siphoning off the proceeds from state-run enterprises, including a small gold mine.

However, when Forbes magazine listed Castro in 2006 as one of the world’s richest ‘kings, queens and dictators’, he angrily insisted he lived on a salary of £20 (A$33) a month.

The full extent of his hypocrisy and personal excesses emerged only in 2014 when a former longtime bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, wrote a book about Castro’s secret life and estimated he was worth at least £100 million ($168 million).

He revealed in lavish detail that would have appalled struggling Cubans how even a typical day’s spear-fishing for Castro in the crystal-clear waters off his private island was like the ‘royal hunts of Louis XV in the forests around Versailles’.

Rising at midday, Castro would be dressed in his scuba gear by kneeling flunkeys. He would then head off in a gleaming motor boat — filled with his favourite expensive whisky and grilled langoustines — to waters that had already been scouted that morning by staff anxious to find the areas with the most fish.

As for that private island, Cayo Piedra, Sanchez described it as a ‘garden of Eden’ where he entertained famous guests such as the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and could show off a spectacular lagoon filled with turtles and dolphins. Castro would sail there on an 26m luxury yacht fitted out with rare Angolan wood.

On the mainland, his grand homes included an ‘immense’ Havana estate with a rooftop bowling alley, personal hospital and indoor basketball court, and a seaside villa with pool, jacuzzi and sauna. His most notorious home was Unit 160, or Punto Cero, a fortress-like compound which wasn’t just the HQ for his torture and surveillance regime, but also housed his own ice-cream factory.

Castro was terrified of being poisoned and sourced all his own food locally or from rich overseas friends who supplied him with edible luxuries. Castro not only had his own cow to provide all his dairy needs but so did each of his children. Close to Unit 160, a separate and more secret abode was set aside for another of his vices — women. Castro regularly met his mistresses there.

Castro, who even kept secret the existence of his wives, was able to conceal a rapacious infidelity that produced at least nine children by four women. Reported lovers ranged from the Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida to an underage nightclub dancer who reported how he smoked continually during sex.

His notorious affairs earned him the nickname ‘the Horse’. He had a taste for young Cuban women of every colour and background, and half-jokingly told a journalist that it was his colossal sexual drive that had led him away from the Roman Catholic Church.

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[Guest BacKaran]

Nope. It's interesting to see what will happen for Cuba's future....