¿y?, ya te gustaría a tí "que se llevase la corriente" a mucha gente para que no contasen la verdad, ¿eh?

Fidel Castro’s Holdings

Cuba is a totalitarian state controlled by Fidel Castro,
who is today the longest-serving head of state. In
power since 1959, he is chief of state with the titles of
President, Head of Government, First Secretary of
the Communist Party, and Commander in Chief of
the Armed Forces. In March of 2003, already after
44 years in power, he officially declared his intent to
remain in office for life. During his entire tenure, his
brother and designated successor, Raúl, has been
Head of Cuba’s Armed Forces and his principal and
loyal ally. The regime they command denies basic
civil, political, and economic rights to its citizens.
Arguably, Fidel Castro “owns” most of Cuba. As supreme
ruler of one of the world’s most tightly-held
and closed economies, the level of usurpation of a
country’s resources by one person that he has managed
to carry out seems comparable in modern times
only to that of present North Korea under the Kim
Jong Il and his father, the late Kim Il Sung, before
him. For nearly five decades, Fidel Castro has arbitrarily
controlled and had at his sole disposal practically
all of Cuba’s financial and economic resources.
According to countless first-hand reports by former
regime higher-ups, Fidel alone has the last word on
all decisions affecting the political and economic destiny
of the entire Cuban nation. Most Cuba experts
and scholars agree on this point. Alcibíades Hidalgo,
one of the highest-ranking officials to flee the island,6
explained: “It is simply impossible to undertake any
political or economic initiative in Cuba. The only
option one has is to surrender to the dictates of the
regime and to the thinking of the one and only maximum
leader, who is above all the citizens. … Fidel is
accountable to no one and is able to live his own reality.”
7 Many other former top government officials
uniformly describe Fidel Castro’s direct personal
control over the country’s finances and the absence
of separation between public property and de facto
private property under his command. His brother
Raúl, head of the Armed Forces and designated successor,
is intimately linked to these practices.


APPENDIX
Partial List of Companies Run by Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior
Under the Holding Company CIMEX

Africa
Elshippers, Inc. (Monrovia, Liberia)
Canada
Galax, Inc.115 (Montreal)
Europe
Acemex Holding (Lietchenstein)
AngloCaribbean Shipping Co.(London, U.K.)
Cariberia (Spain)
Cotei (Milan, Italy)
Coprova (Paris, France)
Crymsa (Madrid, Spain)
Dalvest (Genoa, Switzerland)
Dicesa, S.A. (Madrid, Spain)116
Flight Dragon Shipping Co. (Malta)117
Gemex (Frankfurt, Germany)
Havana International Bank of London
(London, U.K.)
Nordstrand, Ltd. (Germany)
Norstrand, Ltd. (Lietchenstein)
Quiminter (Viena, Austria)
Taina Shipping (Rótterdam, Holland)
Latin America
Mexico
Cumexint, S.A.118
Exportadora del Caribe
Panama
Abastecedora Naval e Industrial
Anaisa, S.A.
Angelini, S.A119
Avalon, S.A.
Azrak, S.A. (Panama)
Bewell Corporation, Inc.
Boutique La Maison
Bradfield Maritime Corp., Inc.
Canapel, S.A.
Carisub, S.A. Casa del Repuesto
Chamet Import
Elham Financial Corporation (holding company)
Global Marine Overseas, Inc.
Guamar Shipping Co. 120
Havanatur121
Havinpex122
Imprisa
Mercurius Import & Export
Japan
Kyoei International Co.
Nippon Caribbean Co.

Source: List delivered by hand to the author in Miami,
August 8, 2005, by Manuel de Beunza, a Cuban
intelligence officer for 20 years, who ran a front company
for Cuba in Canada and was involved in numerous
overseas business activities for Cuba.