Background and Personal Life
Bosch was born on 18 August 1926 in the village of Potrerillo, 150 miles east of Havana. "Bosch's father was first a policeman in Potrerillo and later a successful restaurant owner in the same village. His mother was a teacher." In 1946 Bosch enrolled in the University of Havana medical school, where he first met Fidel Castro; Bosch was president of the medical school student body while Castro was head of the law school student body. After graduating, Bosch moved to Toledo, Ohio for a paediatric internship.
Bosch's first wife, Myriam, was a fellow medical school graduate and moved with him to Miami in July 1960, along with their four children, which soon became five. They divorced ten years later, when Bosch was in prison. In 1976 he had another child with his second wife, Adriana. He returned to the United States in 1988, despite being wanted for parole violations, saying "I have a loving wife who resides in the United States and five American children with whom I want to share the last years of my life."
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