Images of one of Fidel Castro’s grandsons bragging about the Mercedes Benz he toys around with are barely the tip of the iceberg vis a vis the family clan. The Castro’s have ruled the island for more than half a century as if it were their family farm. Although most of them have chosen a life away from politics, filled with leisure and glamour, like typical privileged children they feel part of the political power that their blood relation allows them insofar as circumventing norms, loyalties and even Miguel Diaz-Canel himself. who bears the misfortune of not being a Castro, much less part of the military caste that manipulates him from the shadows.