Buenos Aires, April 11 (Inditop.com/EFE) A Cuban neurosurgeon has said former president Fidel Castro once felt “a very marked inclination” towards her.
Hilda Molina, 66, who now lives in Argentina, however, described Castro as a “living myth” and a man with a “superior intellect, but heartless.”
The physician came to Argentina in June 2009 to be reunited with her son and grandson following 15 years of separation after the Cuban government refused to authorise her departure from the island.
Molina said she knew Fidel Castro since the time she was a medical student in the 1970s.
“During those years I was already a little disappointed, though I believed in the revolution. He seemed to me an egomaniac. The second meeting that led to lasting ties with him was in 1987. He seemed to me a superior intellect. But if I had known him in 1959 I would never have followed his revolution,” she said.
“His eyes are those of a body and mind without heart. And a heartless intellect is an intellect to be feared,” she said.
Molina, who will launch a book about her life titled “Mi Verdad” (My Truth), said Castro was “extremely affectionate” with her and always went out of his way to praise her.
The former president always sent her flowers and he even once offered her a car, she said. “He would present me to his international friends as a private possession, as a charm, a pet.”
Even after he retired as president of Cuba, Castro has “never stopped ruling the island,” Molina said.
The only changes under the presidency of his brother, Raul, is that “now there are cell phones and computers for sale,” she said.
Fidel Castro stepped down in July 2006 after being stricken with serious illness. His younger sibling was officially elevated to the presidency in February 2008.
