Alina Fernández Revuelta

Alina is the daughter of Natalia Revuelta Clews and Fidel Castro Ruz

She was born in Cuba in 1956, the result of the relationship that Fidel Castro maintained with Nati Revuelta. She spent her childhood in the shadows and when she was 10 years old she learned who her father was. In 1993 she left Cuba and lived in Spain, currently she resides in Miami, where she has a radio program. In 1998 she published her autobiography, Memoirs of Fidel Castro's Rebellious Daughter.

Alina Fernández Revuelta is the illegitimate, but recognized, daughter of Fidel Castro Ruz. Alina married in 1973 while still very young, at only 17 years of age.

As the illegitimate daughter of the Cuban leader, she lived during her early years with her mother, Natalia "Naty" Revuelta Clews (born in Havana in 1925), bearing the surname of the latter's husband, Orlando Fernández. In her native Cuba she had a career as a model, and was a public relations director for a modeling agency.

Finally, she left her country in 1993, and to accomplish her goal, she boarded a plane heading to Spain, disguised as a Spanish tourist, wearing a wig. For this, Elena Díaz-Verson Amos, a Cuban immigrant with residence in the United States, provided Alina with a forged passport. Some time later, she moved to the city of Miami.

In 1998 she wrote a book called "Castro's Daughter: Memoirs of Exile from Cuba". There she describes the intimate details of her life as she grew up under the revolutionary regime, and the internal changes that were taking place in the country during her youth.

Alina has a radio program called "Simply Alina," on the WQBA station in the city of Miami. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the theme is light, with Latin musicians or painters as guests. However, on Wednesdays, she dedicates herself fully to analyzing internal Cuban politics, from her particular perspective, which took her from being within the Cuban Revolution to being a critic of it from the outside.

In recent years, Alina has been living with Mrs. Elena Díaz-Verson Amos (wife of John Amos), in the city of Columbus, state of Georgia.

One of Fidel Castro's sisters in exile in Miami, Juana (Juanita), filed a civil lawsuit against her niece Alina Fernández, over some supposedly defamatory passages in her autobiography, about herself and her parents (that is, Fidel's), Ángel Castro and Lina Ruz. To tell the truth, those passages only represent a small portion of the book. After seven years of litigation, which cost Juanita some USD 100,000, in 2005 a Spanish court ordered Fernández and the Barcelona publisher Plaza & Janes to pay her USD 45,000 in compensation. Juanita said that the book defamed her family.