“Hemingway hailed Castro’s revolution as ‘very pure and beautiful,'” Fontova said. “He was also a guest of honor at many of Che Guevara’s firing squad massacres. Hemingway loved to watch Che’s firing squads murder hundreds of Cubans. Hemingway would watch the massacres from a picnic chair while sipping Daiquiris.”
A co-worker of mine is doing her master’s thesis in American Lit something to do with Hemingway. I will ask her about this on Monday. She’s a Trump supporter... will be interesting to find out if she knows this about her subject.
In his later years, George Plimpton revealed some of the darker things he'd seen in his career, including what happened while he was in Cuba interviewing Hemingway in the early Castro days ---
“There’s something you should see,” Hemingway told Plimpton while preparing a shaker of drinks for the outing….they got in the car with a few others and drove some way out of town. They got out, set up chairs and took out the drinks, as if they were going to watch the sunset.
Soon, a truck arrived. This, explained George, was what they’d been waiting for. It came, as Hemingway knew the same time each day. It stopped and some men with guns got out of it. In the back were a couple of dozen others who were tied up. Prisoners.
The men with guns hustled the others out of the back of the truck, and lined them up.–FUEGO!!!– Then they shot them. They put the bodies back into the truck.”
I always wondered why the MSM went gaga over Hemmingway. It looks like I might have an idea now.