Juanita Castrosister of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has been in exile since the 1960s, He died this Monday in a Miami hospital at the age of 90. said journalist Maria Antonieta Collins, co-author of her memoir.

“Today, Juanita Castro, an exceptional woman, walked ahead of us along the path of life and death. a tireless fighter for the cause of her Cuba, which she loved so much,” Collins posted on his account Instagram.

Juanita Castro sharply criticized the regime led by her brothers. First Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and then Raul, 92, and always showed his political differences with the Havana government.

Collins was the author of the memoirs of Castro’s sister, who He left Cuba in 1964 after breaking up with them.

The journalist, who did not specify the cause of death, asked on behalf of her sister Emma and her family: “Privacy during this painful time.”

“There will be no interview. and his will stipulated that his funeral would be private. We ask for your prayers for the eternal repose of his soul,” he added.

A few years after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Juanita Castro left the island for Mexico, and a few months later He went into exile in the USA. whose citizenship he received in 1984.

In South Florida she became a businesswoman and for many years was activist against the Castro regime.

A year ago, while in exile in Miami, he said that for decades he had resisted the Cuban system, as well as those who “in exile they were not forgiven unfairly” that her last name was Castro Ruz and they “attacked her mercilessly.”

She has always demonstrated her political differences with the Havana regime and, although she mourned the death of Fidel Castro in 2016, He said he does not plan to attend the funeral.

Then in an interview with the Latin American network Univision, he said that they had been “separated for political reasons for many years,” but feelings and family ties were maintained “with great pain” From your side.

According to a biographical profile on Telemundo, the fourth of the Castro Ruz brothers born May 6, 1933. She studied business at the convent school Las Ursulinas in Havana and returned to her hometown of Biran, today’s Holguin province, where she opened the Juanita Cinema.

He supported the revolution against Fulgencio Batista. and the triumph of the uprising, but soon his first disagreements with his brother Fidel began, following the beginning of political persecution of those who did not agree with the ideology of the communist regime.

Juanita Castro’s contacts with the CIA began in June 1961. during a trip to Mexico to visit his sister Emma. He then purchased an apartment in Havana, where he hid politically persecuted people and also helped nuns expelled from the island, Telemundo reports.

After joining the opposition group Cuban Catholic Action in 1964 Raul Castro He showed him the file that contained all his conspiracy activities, and he decided to take refuge in Mexico, according to what he says in his memoirs.

Already exiled to Miami, she opened a pharmacy in 1973. which he maintained until December 2006, when he sold his business to retail chain CVS.

She has lived away from the media spotlight for the past few years. at his home in Coral Gables, south Florida.

Fidel Castro’s father, Angel Castro Argiz, had seven children with Lina Rus: Angelita (1923), Ramon (1924), Fidel (1926), Raul (1931), Juanita (1933) , Emma (1935), who apparently resides in Mexico. and Agustina (1938).

(EFE)