Prior to Castroism, by the way, Cuba was swamped with more immigrants per-capita than the U.S., mostly from Europe. … People from nearby Haiti jumped on rafts desperate to enter Cuba, which enjoyed a higher standard of living than much of Europe. … In 1953 more Cubans vacationed (then voluntarily went home) from the U.S. than Americans vacationed in Cuba.…
The founding of the Castro dictatorship in Cuba set the pattern that was followed later in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Grenada. … Not only was Castro part of the Soviet bloc from day one, he made Cuba the first Soviet military base in the Western Hemisphere and…
On December 3rd, 2009, Castro’s KGB-trained police arrested Alan Gross, a U.S. citizen working in Cuba on contract for the U.S. … In 1958 Cuba boasted more phones and TVs per capita than most European countries. … By the way, introducing cutting-edge communications equipment into Cuba didn’t always land Americans in torture chambers.…
Here we find:
“In Cuba many people spent long hours with me, helped open doors I could not have pushed through myself, and … terror plot were mostly members of the Cuban mission to the United Nations working in concert with members of the Fair Play For Cuba … America’s top Cuba spy catcher Chris Simmons (now retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency) identified every one of the above as…
Cuba today is trapped in a time warp, forever stuck in 1959, the year of the communist revolution. … It is another reason Cuban Americans are angry at a President who has lifted travel restrictions to Cuba. … Our country should not lift sanctions against Cuba.…
"There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights … (Stalinist Cuba.) … In brief, none of the craziness Alice found after tumbling down that rabbit hole comes close to the craziness Cuba-watchers read and…
* "If the nuclear missiles had remained [in Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. … During a 1961 speech in Cuba, Che Guevara denounced the very “spirit of rebellion” as “reprehensible.” … In collaboration with Soviet officers Che Guevara helped crush a rural rebellion in Cuba itself that raged from 1960-66.…
rights and freedoms will be reinstituted" — and more than seven years since Raúl Castro succeeded his brother as tyrant-in-chief — Cuba … In reality his policy has amounted to little more than dialing back US restrictions on travel and business with Cuba. … For all the speculation that Raul's accession to power would finally usher Cuba into a new era of pragmatism and reform, the toll…
in 5 days of Fierce Street Fighting,” read a New York Times headline on Jan 4, 1959 about the “battle” of Santa Clara in central Cuba … publication’s title, “Diary of a Combatant,” here are some points of interest:
“In all essentials Castro’s (and Che’s) battle for Cuba…
