Miami
Television audiences got their first look inside Fidel Castro’s living room this week. The Spanish-language network Univision aired a documentary on the Cuban leader’s guarded personal life, illustrated with home video pilfered by an angry ex-girlfriend of one of Castro’s sons. Dashiell Torralba, 27, who recently defected, said she released the footage to spite her former boyfriend’s mother, who disapproved of her. The documentary, The Secret Life of Fidel Castro, shows the family enjoying a comfortable lifestyle, and contains shots of the communist leader dressed casually—sans army fatigues—at “an elaborately set dinner table. “He preaches equality,” said reporter Mario Vallejo, “but that’s just for everyone else, not him.”
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