Naty Revuelta is dead. Her story would make an interesting movie, because it's all true!

[MADem]

She had a daughter with Fidel Castro, he didn't recognize the child until she was 12, at which point the kid said "Thanks, but no thanks." Her estranged husband stepped up and took care of the child.

Read all about her here: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150302/cb-obit-revuelta-59b49bc6b6.html

...Castro did not recognize his daughter, and Revuelta's estranged husband gave her his last name. Castro eventually told Alina at 12 she could become a Castro, but by then she didn't want to, according to her memoir.
After Castro's forces toppled Batista, Revuelta quietly began preparing for a role as Cuba's first lady — but it was not meant to be, as Castro kept his distance.
She and her husband divorced in 1959, and he took their daughter Nina to the United States. Revuelta never remarried, lost her home to nationalization and became active in Cuba's new civilian militias.
Alina Fernandez Revuelta fled the island in 1993 disguised as a Spanish tourist — an escape Revuelta only learned about from U.S. radio reports — and later wrote articles blasting his communist government.
In August 2014, Fernandez Revuelta returned to Cuba for the first time to see her ailing mother...

[Judi Lynn]

1. Here are images of the former mistress of Fidel Castro:

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"The above photo shows Naty Revuelta with her daughter Alina, Fidel's daughter. In 1950s Cuba Naty was considered Havana's most beautiful socialite, married to a very wealthy doctor. But she hated the plight of the massively maligned majority peasants in Batista's Cuba. So, she clandestinely aided and financed the young rebel Fidel Castro, including her support of the ill-fated, Fidel-led attack on Batista's Moncada garrison on July 26, 1953. Fidel's subsequent imprisonment would surely have led to his execution except for the fact that the media, including the New York Times' famed reporter Herbert L. Mathews, closely monitored the treatment of Fidel, who by then was the hope and the hero of the majority peasants. When Fidel was released from prison in 1955, everyone knew death squads (out of the view of the media) would dog his every trail, which they did. But Naty and other urban underground women bravely provided Fidel safe houses till he could escape the island, and one of the safe houses owned by Naty was where Fidel impregnated her, resulting in their daughter Alina. "

http://cubaninsider.blogspot.com/2011/10/cuban-history-pictorial-flashback.html







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[Judi Lynn]

2. The creepy act perpetrated by Fidel Castro's brother-in-law, Rafael Diaz-Balart, involved Naty,

and broke up Fidel Castro's marriage to Rafael Diaz-Balart's sister, Mirta, (Rafael being the father of Congressmen Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, from Florida and MSNBC and Univision personality, Jose Diaz-Balart, himself former United Fruit lawyer in Cuba, and later Speaker of the House in Havana, then a Minister in Fulgencio Batista's cabinet) involved a letter swap orchestrated by Diaz-Balart.

Written by Ann Louise Bardach, former N.Y. Times reporter, and author:

Salvador Lew, a lawyer who became head of Radio Marti in 2001, was close to both men at the University, and remembered vividly the escalating drama between the two families. “Mirta loved Fidel very much but Rafael never liked that marriage and he was always pushing for their break up. As the deputy head of the Ministry of Interior in Cuba when Fidel was in jail, he could see their correspondence because all prison mail was censored. And he got a letter for Naty and put it in the envelope for Mirta. And he put Mirta's letter in the envelope to Naty. Of course, Mirta was very hurt when she read the letter that Fidel wrote to Naty. That was the key to the whole divorce. She wouldn't have left the marriage except for the letter Castro wrote to Naty.” A humiliated Mirta phoned Naty to inform her of the letter she had received and request her own letter which Naty claimed not to have opened. Although some biographers have attributed the letter exchange to a mid -level clerical mistake, Lesnik and Juanita Castro concur with Lew’s version that there was nothing accidental about the letter mix up. Certainly, Mirta came to resent her brother’s role. “Mirta and Rafael are not on great terms at all,” said Gordon, who traced the breach back to their differences over Castro.

While Mirta was devastated by the letter mix up, Naty was hopeful that it would enliven her prospects to succeed Mirta. “Naty said that Mirta called her up and accused her of all manner of things,” explained Gimbel. “At one point, she thought maybe the prison censor was responsible, but the censor had been so kind to them previously that she doubted it. So she became suspicious of Mirta’s family’s role.” The final blow to the marriage was Castro’s discovery in prison that the Diaz-Balarts had put Mirta on the government payroll, which Castro saw as an irrevocable affront to his honor. "Tell Rafael that I am going to kill him myself," a fuming Castro told a journalist friend at the time.

More:
http://bardachreports.com/articles/cc_chapter2.htm

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Sorry about the wrong link. Just replaced it.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Photos of a lady someone forgot, Mirta Diaz-Balart, Fidel Castro's wife:

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