Tiring Of Miss Castro

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30794, 5 July 1965, Page 2

Tiring Of Miss Castro

Juanita Castro, 42-year-old eldest sister of Cuba’s Prime Minister (Dr. Fidel Castro) flew to Mexico last year and announced that she was a refugee from the Castro regime which, she said, had turned Cuba into a prison camp, says a London correspondent The Mexican Government subsequently granted her political asylum. Since then she has been a much-prized exhibit for those who oppose Castro. She has said the sort of

thing that brings joy to the hearts of Castro’s opponents. “Ninety-five per cent of the Cuban people are against the communist regime,” she says. “In those 95 per cent are included militiamen and members of the army itself. Their total and absolute help

can be counted on at the decisive moment.” She has little love for her brother. “He had, and has retained, some of the temperamental attributes of a spoiled son. Indeed, though none of us in the family ever lacked for anything, my father always gave Fidel what Fidel asked for.

“Since his youth, since his struggles in the university, he

has shown himself to be a person of arrogant, overbearing character. In short, totalitarian.”

Last week she gave evidence before America’s UnAmerican Activities Committee. She spoke for eight hours, but everything she said was what she had said several times before. Even the anti-Castro people are beginning to get a little disenchanted with Juanita. Can it be that as one commentator has remarked: “She did much to support the current theory that Fidel allowed his sister to defect from Cuba to ensure his own escape from her daily invective.” (All Rights Reserved)