Cuban army general’s son posed for photo with hands around the neck of ‘Fidel Castro’

Posted on Wednesday, 07.11.12

Cuban army general's son posed for photo with hands around the neck of
'Fidel Castro'

The son of a Cuban army general assigned as advisor in Venezuela posed
for a photograph with his hands around the neck of a wax figure of the
former Cuban leader.
By Juan O. Tamayo
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com

A Cuban army general assigned as an advisor in Venezuela has two
children living abroad, including one in South Florida who was
photographed "strangling" a statue of Fidel Castro, a Miami blogger
reported Wednesday.

"We want to show the ideological decay in the armed forces, how the
generals' own children think, and warn the Venezuelans of what can
happen to them," said Luis Dominguez, who runs the blog Cuba al
Descubierto — Cuba Uncovered.

The blog often takes jabs at the usually secretive members of Cuba's
ruling class, publishing their home addresses and phone numbers as well
as private details on relatives who have left the island and now live
abroad.

Dominguez said his post Wednesday was prompted by news reports that
retired Venezuelan Gen. Antonio Rivero had identified Cuban Gen.
Leonardo Andollo as the second in command of the island's military
mission in Venezuela. ivero complained to the national prosecutor's
office in Caracas last week that the "active presence" of Andollo and
other Cuban officers in meetings of the Venezuelan military violated the
South American country's sovereignty.

Cuba has been reported to maintain a large military and security
advisory mission in Venezuela to support leftist President Hugo Chávez,
although its numbers and the names of its officers are not publicly known.

Dominguez headlined his post, "Cuban general who tries to enslave
Venezuela has his two children and three grandchildren living in free
lands."

The blog post shows Andollo's son Ernesto, in a photo from the son's
Facebook page, with his hands around the neck of a figure of Castro at a
wax museum in New York. The text says, "How much I would give to really
do it."

Ernesto, 41, left Cuba in 1994, lives in Naples, Fla., is married and
has two children, according to the blog post. El Nuevo Herald could not
reach Ernesto, but messages to his wife seeking comment for this story
were not returned.

His sister Deborah moved a year ago to Cozumel, Mexico, with her French
husband and their son. She has held 16 records for diving without scuba
gear and now runs an aquatic activities academy, Blue Yemaya, in the
Caribbean island.

Her Web page, deborahandollo.com, includes photos of her father and
brother. She confirmed to El Nuevo Herald that she was the daughter of
Gen. Andollo, said she was not aware of her brother's photo and declined
further comment.

Dominguez also published details of Andollo's career, including
engineering studies in the former Soviet Union, a deployment in Ethiopia
and his current membership in Cuba's parliament, the National Assembly
of People's Power.

He also published Andollo's Havana address and phone number and noted,
"It would be good if all Venezuelans who want their homeland free of
Cubans would call him and let him know." He declined to reveal the
source of his information.

The post included several photos of Andollo, his home in Havana and a
brother named Sergio, Deborah's husband Eric Testi and Deborah with
Homero Saker, identified as the Cuban consul in the resort city of
Cancun, near Cozumel.

Also published in the post were the numbers of Cuban passports and
national identification cards for Deborah and others that could not be
independently confirmed.

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