Family Fun At Fidel's House

Television viewers caught a rare glimpse of Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the comforts of his family compound.

Miami-based WLTV 23, a Univision affiliate, obtained a home video shot by Castro's children and smuggled into the United States by a friend of Dashiell Torralba, former girlfriend of Antonio Castro Soto del Valle, a Cuban orthopedic surgeon and one of Castro's five children with Dalia Soto del Valle.

In a brief interview with WLTV reporter Mario Vallejo, Torralba said her decision to expose the family's intimate home life "could be a way to communicate to Dalia all the damage she'd done to me."

Torralba's two-year relationship with Antonio Castro ended abruptly after the direct intervention of Soto del Valle.

Among topics to be discussed throughout the video's airing over the next several days will be Castro family members' involvement in the lucrative sale of visas, of which Torralba claims to have evidence.

The grainy home video reveals a spacious family home with children and adults frolicking in an expansive garden and clad in sporty outfits. A young man is seen riding a motorized scooter down a long outdoor red brick pathway at one point.

Castro only appears briefly in the first segment of video, seated at the end of a long dining table eating a meal, clad in a casual red shirt.

WLTV-23 will air the entire video in brief segments over the next 10 days.

By Tal Abbady