Mexican Teacher Reveals Romance With Fidel Castro

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A Mexican teacher, Lía Cámara, assures six decades after she had a love with the late Cuban president Fidel Castro when she planned in Mexico the start of the Revolution.

"I believe that love that is not realized, that it is only an ideal, remains latent and remains so latent that you will never forget it until the last day of your life," he said in an interview with Teresa Rodríguez from Here and Now (Univision).

The music teacher said she met the Commander in Yucatan, Mexico. "I knew Fidel Castro as Alejandro González in Valladolid," he recounted the false name that Castro supposedly gave him when he asked for her phone number to invite her out after meeting her on a bus where they traveled together to Mérida when they were young.

“He seemed very human to me, a great humanist. What he wanted was to return so that he could help people who lacked many things. When you are young, you are idealistic. His idea seemed magnificent to me,”he confessed.

The lovers went out on various dates, including the Tulipanes restaurant and the Mérida cinema, where they saw the opera Carmen. "The first disappointment [was] that he did not dance and also told us that he was divorced and that he had a son," she recalled, who still continued her relationship with him.

The late revolutionary visited his parents' house and his mother accompanied them on walks as a chaperone. Her doubts about him began when she saw a gun inside a case in the back seat of her car.

"I don't know if he used us or if he really appreciated us, he appreciated my family," she admitted, since Castro's relationship with this Yucatecan family allowed him to travel to key points in Mexico without raising suspicion as a foreigner while planning his return to Cuba. by sea.

She stopped seeing him when he mysteriously left Mexico.

"He stayed to write, but he never wrote and suddenly in the newspaper it appears that Fidel Castro had been arrested and in Mexico they take a photo of him in the newspaper," she says, who then realized the false identity of her lover. "It was a tremendous scare."

In July 1960 the teacher received an invitation to attend a congress on the island and excited to meet up with the then leader of the Revolution packed her bags.

To her disappointment, Castro did not go to see her, although she sent trusted people to attend to her during her visit, which lasted several months. At that time, Cámara says he collaborated in social work, giving houses to peasants and helping to open several schools. According to him, Castro named one in his honor.

He regretted not having had a longer affair with the late exmandatario. "I would have loved to be his real girlfriend, to have received his kisses and to be introduced as the first lady," she said.

Although Fidel Castro broke his heart, Cámara married another Cuban, Alberto Maceo, with whom he had children.