In this excerpt, Sanchez exposes “El Jefe’s” privileged life. “The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Body Guard to El Lider Maximo” by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez (St ...

Fidel Castro, Cuba’s communist dictator, former president and divisive world figure, died on November 25 at 90 years old—53 years and three days after his nemesis U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Sanchez’s book, “The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Líder Maximo,” describes his former boss’s hidden life of political ruthlessness, mistresses and ...

Excerpted from “The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo” by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez. Out now from St. Martin’s Press. Filed under.

The end of 1988. A day like any other was coming to a close in Havana. In a few minutes, my life would be overturned. Fidel had spent his afternoon reading and working in his office when he stuck h… ...

Castro fired him. Sánchez was imprisoned for two years and tortured. In 2008 he defected to the U.S., making him the only member of el maximo lider’s personal escort ever to flee the island.

An exclusive excerpt from Ann Louise Bardach’s new book, Without Fidel, offers glimpses into Fidel Castro's off-limits personal life. A. L. Bardach Published Sep. 20 2009 6:49PM EDT ...

The film provided Cubans with rare glimpses of his personal life when it was shown unannounced on Cuban TV on Jan. 1, the anniversary of Castro's revolution, and again at two film festivals in March.

"Fidel Castro: My Life" (Scribner, 626 pages, $40), by Ignacio Ramonet and Fidel Castro: In the winter of his life, and with his political future unclear, Fidel Castro's personal musings on ...

Fidel Castro changed the flavor of the milk Cuban children drink at breakfast. He filled Cuban kitchens with energy-saving rice cookers, and he gave a two-hour lesson in their use live on national ...

Juanita Castro, the anti-communist sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raul Castro who worked with the CIA against their government, has died in Miami at age 90. Alan Diaz/AP hide caption ...