Cuban magazine pans Juanita's book

Juanita Castro's book "Fidel and Raúl: My brothers" did not get a good review in La Jiribilla, a magazine of the Culture Ministry, which described it as "a commercial operation in bad taste and low moral standing."
The book is "a pamphlet created to roll out assertions that are frankly unimportant," the magazine says. (See our Oct. 24 blog item, "'Shocking revelations' about the Castros...")
"Through techniques of recycling and political marketing that include publicity, manipulation and sensationalism, the anti-Castro industry in Miami [...] has marketed a new product, the memoirs of Juanita Castro," the magazine says in an article titled "Memoirs to be forgotten."
The book's publication "is all the more shocking precisely because, in order to distance himself from the habitual frivolity like no other Western leader in more than 50 years, Fidel Castro has made an effort to preserve the privacy of his family from the avatars of his public activities," the article says.
"If it is true that in the early 1960s the author worked for the CIA, she would have been just one of thousands of Cubans who – in exchange for gifts, money or other motivations, among them hatred, the desire for revenge, and intolerance – worked for the CIA and lent themselves to serve as pawns of U.S. policy against Cuba.
"Were this the case, the difference is that she also conspired against close relatives. There is no merit or exceptionality in that behavior, only the opposite," the article says. "The enemies of the revolution for once were casting a spotlight on their misdeeds, [...] The truth is clear: Fidel Castro is the victim, the one offended, the individual who was conspired against and who has maintained a silence that honors and elevates him."
–Renato Pérez Pizarro.

Comments

[Richard Cheeseman]

Fair comment in all respects from La Jiribilla.