Juanita Castro Net Worth: How rich is Juanita Castro?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Juanita Castro was a Cuban-American activist and writer as well as the sister of Fidel and Raúl. 

Juanita Castro Net Worth

Juanita Castro had an estimated net worth of about $1 to $5 million.

Juanita Castro Biography

Juana de la Caridad “Juanita” Castro Ruz was welcomed into the world on May 6, 1933, making her 90.

Since the 1960s, when she broke with the military regime, she had to go into exile in Miami, from where she became one of its ma in critical voices, until her death at the age of 90 in a hospital in the city.

A few years after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Juanita Castro left the island for Mexico and, a few months later, went into exile in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1984. She settled in South Florida, where she became a businesswoman and for years condemned the Castro regime.

However, although for decades she confronted the Cuban dictatorship, she also denounced that “in exile, they unjustly did not forgive the fact that her surname was Castro Ruz and attacked her mercilessly”.

“Undoubtedly, I have suffered more than the rest of the exile community because nowhere in the Straits of Florida do they give me any respite and few are those who understand the paradox of my life,” she wrote in her memoirs. “For those in Cuba, I am a deserter because I left and denounced the regime in place. For many in Miami I am persona ‘non grata’ because I am the sister of Fidel and Raul,” Juanita recounted in the memoir, entitled ‘Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, the secret story’.

According to the Telemundo network, Juanita Castro is the fourth of the Castro Ruz siblings and was born on 6 May 1933. She studied business at the Las Ursul inas nuns’ school in Havana and returned to her hometown in Biran, now Holguin province, where she opened the Juanita Cinema.

She supported the Revolution against Fulgencio Batista and the triumph of the rebellion, but soon had disagreements with Fidel, following the beginning of the political persecution of those who did not agree with the communist ideology.

She began to have contacts with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in June 1961, during a trip to Mexico to visit his sister Emma. She then acquired a flat in Havana where she hid politically persecuted people and supported some nuns who were expelled from the island.

From there she joined the opposition group Cuban Catholic Action in 1964. Then Raul Castro rebuked her with a dossier detailing all her subversive activities and she decided to take refuge in Mexico, from where she moved to Miami, where she opened a pharmacy in 1973, which she ran until December 2006, when she sold her business to the CVS retail chain.

She spent her last years away from the spotlight, in the residential neighbourhood of Coral Gables, in South Florida.

She passed away on December 4, 2023.

She breathed her last from an undisclosed cause of death, leaving behind her family. Juanita Castro had no illness he suffered. She was 90 years old when she passed away.

Castro remained notable during her time alive as a Cuban activist. She was also the sister of Fidel and Raúl, both former presidents of Cuba.

The sister of Ramón, a key figure in the Cuban Revolution, Castro made collaborations with the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba in 1964

She was born to the Spaniard Angel Castro Argiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez.

There is the absence of information regarding Juanita Castro’s husband and her children, however, it is rumoured that she has children of her own.

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