Ángel Castro gave his bright, rebellious third son (the offspring of his second marriage, to Lina Ruz, the family’s cook) the best education money could buy. He went to the Marist-run Dolores primary school in Santiago, was a boarder at Havana’s exclusive Jesuit Colegio Belén high school, and attended law school at Havana University. Intensely competitive and hot-tempered, Fidel acquired a reputation as a gun-toting rabble-rouser on the volatile university campus.
