It has now come to light who recorded Sandro Castro, the grandson of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, in a video showing him driving his Mercedes-Benz on a road in Havana while boasting about his "toy."
Sandro's co-pilot on that journey is his girlfriend, identified as Daniela Álvarez Torres, 22 years old, as revealed by investigator Luis Domínguez, director of the website Cuba al descubierto, to América Noticias.
According to the details provided, the couple has been together for a year. They met at the Efe nightclub, one of the young man's properties in Havana, and later moved in together. On her Instagram account, the girl goes by Idany_98_, referencing the year she was born.
"(Sandro) strolls through Havana in luxury cars. He has another car (...) a convertible that looks like it's English, either a Jaguar or an MG, something like that. Many of the girlfriends he's had in the past, he met in these nightclubs," Domínguez specified.
The video of Fidel's grandson driving his Mercedes-Benz V6, the date of which remains unknown, has garnered significant criticism on social media for the protagonist's blatant display of insensitivity, flaunting his life of luxury and excess amid the severe scarcity facing the Island.
"You know we’re simple people, but every now and then you have to bring out the little toys you have at home," says Fidel's grandson with a smile, as he accelerates on a completely empty highway, not only due to the restrictions on interprovincial travel, but also because of the general crisis affecting transportation in Cuba.
Sandro Castro is the son of Alexis Castro Soto del Valle, the eldest of Fidel Castro and Dalia Soto del Valle's five children.
According to the information provided to América Noticias by Luis Domínguez, the young man was born on December 5, 1991, and his mother is named Rebeca Arteaga Moras. She also lived in house 3 of the well-known 'Punto cero' until she divorced Alexis Castro. She currently resides in the exclusive Náutico neighborhood of the capital municipality, Playa.
Sandro is perhaps Fidel Castro's most publicized grandson, having appeared multiple times on social media speculating about the luxuries and pleasures that surround his life.
Two years ago, amid a serious energy crisis in the country, he posted a photograph of his car filled with fuel.
On another occasion, he was seen celebrating Halloween dressed as an American superhero: Batman.
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