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[Below is the last part of a long article by Linda Diebel that was published in the May 10, 1997 issue of The Toronto Star. It is about the love affair between Fidel Castro and Naty Revuelta, an experience which more or less wrecked her life. The rich, beautiful, green-eyed blond was married to a prominent cardiologist, an older man with whom she had had a daughter. Her political sympathies prompted her to start attending meetings of the opposition Orthodox party (with which Castro was associated) and it was there, in 1952, that she first set eyes on the charismatic revolutionary. For months, later, years at a stretch, she didn’t see him. But she soon became caught up in the cause, providing moral support to Castro and his fellow rebels, and eventually allowing them to use her husband’s house for their meetings. Naty and Castro became lovers 1955. Their daughter was born in 1956. Somebody should have warned her about a certain kind of man, especially a man born to lead a cause. But it probably wouldn’t have made any difference. Does that mean that some people are destined to be ‘unlucky in love’?]

There are lasting things in life, despite the miseries; there are eternal things—such impressions that I have of you, so unforgettable that I will take them with me to my grave. — Castro from his prison cell on the Isle of Pines, Nov. 7, 1953.

The love letters began from prison.

Revuelta has kept them all. She waited for him to write to her, “like a girl waiting for a phone to ring.”

Once he did, she unleashed an outpouring of letters, brimming with accounts of books, plays, music, art, politics and, even, gossip.

“I simply devoted myself to making life a little more colourful for him. I imagined his life to be very dull, very gray, and I wanted to change that,” she says. “I brought colour to his life.”

“We played in our letters.”

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Cuban socialite (1925-2015)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Revuelta and the second or maternal family name is Clews.

Natalia Revuelta Clews (December 6, 1925 – February 27, 2015) was a Cuban socialite, mistress of Fidel Castro, and mother of his daughter Alina Fernández. Both Revuelta and Castro were married to other people.

Early life

She was active in the Cuban opposition movement following Fulgencio Batista's coup in 1952 and, after being introduced to him, donated money and actively aided Castro and his movement.

Following the birth of her daughter in 1956 and Castro's return from exile in Mexico, Revuelta supported the Cuban revolution but did not continue a relationship with him.

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La Habana/Beautiful, intelligent, affluent – as Félix de Cossío portrayed her, dressed for a party – Natalia Revuelta Clews was collaborating with the Orthodox Party when, on 10 March 1952, hearing of Batista’s coup d’etat on the way to her job as an executive at Esso Standard Oil, she ordered two sets of copies of the keys to her home in Vedado: one for Milla Ochoa, leader of the Orthodox Party, and the other for another Orthodox Party member, Fidel Castro. Giving them the keys was offering them a safe place in case of danger. Fidel and Naty didn’t know each other personally, but that action would mark the rest of her life.

A university degree, fluency in three languages, and a strong culture would have allowed her to engage in any activity; but she was relegated to the mid-level bureaucracy, always under the burden of her adulterous relationship with Fidel – a petty-bourgeois prejudice of the Marxist Revolution. She went on trying to be useful.

I met her through my husband, with whom she shared half a century of friendship, and we were friends despite the huge differences we had on matters of politics. Our conversations were peppered with disagreements, but we never allowed such differences to tarnish our good relationship.

Many knew her as “the mother of Fidel’s daughter” and it’s easy to assume that she enjoyed the privileges of a kept woman. Quite the contrary, the personal and social cost was enormous. Among other things, Naty pawned her jewels to finance in part the Moncada Assault and, at the triumph of the Revolution, she gave her home (now a diplomatic residence) and moved to a smaller house.

The society to which she belonged never forgave her; and her daughters had to suffer the breakup of the family they knew. She felt responsible for the estrangement of her daughters, and never said anything that reflected badly on them; on the contrary, she was happy with the achievements of both and especially proud of her granddaughter.

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Natalia Revuelta was a Cuban socialite who became a paramour of the young revolutionary Fidel Castro, a liaison that produced a daughter who decades later defected to the US and denounced her father as a tyrant. For decades she was the subject of fascination at home and beyond.

She was, Castro’s biographer Georgie Anne Geyer wrote in Guerrilla Prince, “one of the most exquisitely beautiful women in Cuba and a woman with an abnormally sensuous appetite for revolution and adventure.”

She made Castro’s acquaintance in the early 1950s when she was the wife of a prominent and prosperous physician, Orlando Fernandez Ferrer, and when Castro was married to Mirta Diaz-Balart, the mother of his son Fidel, nicknamed Fidelito. Revuelta had worked at the US Embassy in Cuba and at Standard Oil but was unsatisfied by the routines of high society.

“I didn’t have a horrible life, but I felt that the country did,” she recalled to Vanity Fair magazine in 2011. “Everybody stole, from the president down. The ministers became rich. Even their secretaries became rich. The police were killers, only they wore uniforms. Every day you heard of people being tortured, their bodies thrown on the roads or into the sea so the sharks would take care of them... So that’s why I started helping the rebels.”

She became involved with the reform-oriented Ortodoxo Party, whose members included Castro. According to one account, she first met him at a party meeting. According to another, Castro spotted her at a demonstration and asked a mutual acquaintance to introduce them. “We didn’t have much of a chance at a regular relationship,” she told the Toronto Star in 1997. “You must understand, they were times of great danger and intrigue.”

On 10 March 1952, the former Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d’etat that returned him to power, an event that galvanised