Fidel and Raul Castro's Sister Narrates in Her Memoirs Secrets Never Before Revealed, Not Even to Her Brothers

MIAMI, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- After 45 years in exile from Cuba, and the same amount of years of living as a private citizen in Miami, the capital of Cuban exile, Juanita Castro Ruz decides to break her silence and not leave anything unsaid in her recently published memoirs, Fidel y Raul, mis hermanos. La historia secreta.

After being a key player alongside her brothers in the Cuban Revolution to bring down the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship, and afterwards feeling betrayed by their communist ideas and the leftist turns that her brothers were making, Juanita left Cuba and publicly denounced them. In Fidel y Raul, mis hermanos, she reveals intimate details of someone who grew up, fought, and lived with the Castro brothers. The biggest secret: her collaboration with the CIA, her brothers' biggest enemy, while still living in Cuba.  This book, written by journalist Maria Antonieta Collins, is the first ever published by someone so close to the Castros.

"Ten years ago, Juanita Castro decided to write her memoirs and tell about the extraordinary ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies of her life. At that time, it remained as a pending project, and it wasn't until 2009 that Juanita decided that it was the right moment to convey that idea into a book. Thanks to the fortunate coincidence that I was both her friend and a journalist, I had the privilege to work on them with her.

”Surprisingly, Juanita chose this year, 2009, to bear her soul in an extraordinary journey through the triumphs and tragedies of her life and, consequently, the events that have shaped the lives of millions of people during the past fifty years. This is the first-hand testimony of a person who, from the moment of her birth, was connected by the deepest bond to two of the most notable political figures of contemporary Latin American history: Fidel and Raul Castro, her brothers. It is, therefore, the most intimate and accurate analysis any person can do of their own kin: mother, father, grandparents, and brothers, the famous and those that chose to stay out of the limelight.

"It is the account of a woman that severed all ties, a woman that in 1964 joined the Cuban exile in the United States. It is a story for Cubans and non-Cubans alike —the story Juanita Castro owed each and every one of us, a story that had not been told until today." ―Maria Antonieta Collins

The work, published by Santillana Publishing Co. under the Aguilar imprint, is already available at your nearest bookstore.

SOURCE Santillana USA Publishing