Castro Exposed By Sister
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MEXICO CITY, June 30.
Fidel Castro’s sister, Juanita Castro Ruz, said in Mexico City tonight she was breaking with the Communist Castro regime headed by Fidel and their brother, Raul, in Cuba.
She said she had realised since 1960 that Fidel had abandoned the ideals of the Cuban revolution. She said she had believed Fidel’s aim was to destroy the Batista dictatorship, but he had turned Cuba over to Russia and communism. Castro’s sister would not disclose how she came from Cuba; A Cuban Airlines plane arrived today and she may have been on board that. She had tears in her eyes and her voice broke as she read a Jong statement. She said leaving Cuba was a “hard decision”. . Reporting on conditions In Cuba, Miss Ruz' said there were at least 75,000 political prisoners. She said the gaol system imposed by her
brother “disregards all human principles.”
She said Fidel was directing subversive infiltration throughout all of the Americas with specially trained agents. Planes loaded with arms flew every day to secret landing places in other LatinAmerican countries.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30481, 1 July 1964, Page 15
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