In a recent interview, Castro defined himself as a young “normal, common” and said he stayed from his “own businesses.”
Miami, United States. – The most controversial and visible of the grandchildren of the late dictator Fidel Castro, Sandro Castro, said during An interview at the Pódcast Only people pretty that does not participate in institutional public life and that its income comes from private ventures. “I really have nothing to do with politics, nor is mine the politics,” he said. At another time he added: “My last name is political for my family and … I, with much pride of my last name.” And he reiterated: “I personally have nothing to do with this politics.”
Castro defined himself as a young “normal, common” and said he remained from his “own businesses” (which for now are at least two, he said himself: the Efe Bar, in El Vedado, and the Taxis Taxis agency Taximanía).
Castro also announced the opening of his musical seal. “The label is going to call Castro records,” he said. He said he has “strong international support” and said that the project will include “other musical songs”, “new people” material, documentaries and who think “signing people.” “It’s real, it’s real,” he said.
Business: Bar and Taxis Agency
Castro described his bar as a space with weekly programming and university public: “We are currently working from Tuesday to Sunday,” he said. As he said, there “Thematic Nights”, “Electronics” and Presentations of Artists, in addition to promotions: “There we give a little beer, from Tequila, we warm up early.”
He also talked about his transport company. At the beginning he mentioned it as “my taxi agency called Taximanía.” Castro said that he provides “24 -hour service” and that today operates in WhatsApp groups, but that he has the idea of creating an application for mobile phones.
In another of the moments of the interview, he stressed that he acts within the regulatory frameworks. “Business I always do it under the rules of legality. My same bar has its license, pay taxes, my taxi agency, the drink I distribute,” he said.
“Cristach”
On his digital activity he said that he uses a single official platform: “Instagram nothing more, nothing more … everything else that exists is false, it is pure falsehood.” He warned that apocryphal accounts attributed to him are used “to deceive, to cheat.”
Castro linked his public image to “La Cristach”, a word game with glass beer and the way the characters of the Cuban animated film speak Vampires in Havana. “I created this, the Cristach, because it is my favorite drink.” He also alluded to his first foray into music, with the launch of a theme inspired by the Cristach.
At another time, he commented that he would like to record with artists of the urban genre and that he prefers electronics and reggaeton. Differentiated his role as a digital creator from the artist: “It is one thing to be influencer And another thing is to be an artist, ”he said.
Personal income and safety
On the origin of his funds, he argued that he works from a young age and that reinvested. “I am very hardworking … I have always been very merchant, since I was 14 years old,” he said. He added: “Before wasteful the money I prefer to invest it and I have known how to save it and I have known how to invest it.” He said he had not resorted to family or banking support: “Never, thank God, I have had to ask for anything or a relative of mine, or ask for a loan in the bank.”
At another time of the interview, the Pódcast driver recalled the video in which Castro handled a Mercedes Benz car in the middle of the pandemic and that generated numerous criticisms, including his direct relatives. “I put that video in my WhatsApp state for my friends also like cars, run cars, and then they stole it from my WhatsApp status and put it publicly. My goal was not even to put it publicly, making many defamations and putting me as a speculative person (…). Truly the car was neither mine I left apologies Because I think that when it is necessary to apologize, clarify things, it should be done, ”he said
“They were giving me an image of arrogance, of Aridismo [sic]a very malicious image that is not the person I really represent, although I like cars, ”he added.
However, at another time in the interview he recognized that he has his own car, a Hyundai Elantra, he said, without specifying the year.
Consulted for his safety in public space, he said: “I do not live in fear in the streets at all, I go out without security, without escort.” On threats, he said: “They have threatened me on social networks (…) [pero] So in front I have not never had that problem. ”He also indicated that he suffers from the same electricity cuts as other people:“ I have even one Reel In blackout, ”he said.
Private life, trips and nationality
Castro said he is without a partner: “I’m currently single,” he said. About his home he explained: “I am independent and alive for New Vedado. I have an apartment of a room.”
He said he has traveled to “Mexico, Panama, Spain, Italy.” He indicated that he has never been in the United States: “I have never gone, I don’t have the visa. I haven’t done it,” he said when asked if he had presented to request it. Regarding Spanish citizenship by ancestry, he said: “Yes I have the right to make me Spanish nationality.” He also acknowledged: “If that nationality should do me.”
Diaspora youth messages
Castro said that it ensures that its content is humorous “to make laugh” in times “that we cannot be blind, that there are many problems.” The youth recommended avoiding consumption and violence and focusing on goals: “always (…) not to drugs, always (…) not violence”, “focus on their goals, study.”
The Cubans outside the island asked them with cohesion with those who remain in the country: “The Cuban who is no longer here in this country, apart from the fact that he has a slightly complex situation, because I also know that he misses the relatives who have migrated for their reasons, the council is that try to maintain unity with the Cubans that we are also in Cuba, because as I started the introduction, it is a sentimental issue and the greatest help that we are always united Cubans and in the end we are all from town. ”
Sandro Castro Arteaga is the son of Alexis Castro Soto del Valle (the oldest of Fidel’s five children with Dalia Soto del Valle) and Rebecca Arteaga Moras. According to various journalistic sources, he was born on December 5, 1991, so he would be 32 years old, and spent part of his childhood at zero (residential complex of the Castro family in Havana).
