Complex sentence: Daughter Merel is a fashion designer and has served in the past as Castro's personal tailor, convincing him to occasionally change from his customary military attire to a business suit, as she claimed that "green doesn't suit him at all".
Split into simpler sentences: Daughter Merel is a fashion designer and has served in the past as Castro's personal tailor, convincing him to occasionally change from his customary military attire to a business suit. She is quoted as claiming that "green doesn't suit him at all".