Juanita Castro, Exile Sister of Cuban Leaders Who Opposed Communism, Dies in Miami at 90
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Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel and Raúl Castro, died in Miami at age 90. She opposed her brothers' communist government in Cuba.
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She collaborated with the CIA after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, smuggling messages and items into Cuba.
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She fled Cuba in 1964, saying her brothers had made it "an enormous prison." She moved to Miami.
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In Miami, she helped found an anti-Castro nonprofit group and ran a pharmacy in Little Havana.
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She became a U.S. citizen in 1984. Her brother Fidel died in 2016; Raúl is 92 and retired.