[freedom44]

On or Off Cuba Ping.

[dead]

It was two years after his rebels won in 1959 that Castro, facing American antagonism and invasion by CIA-trained Cuban exiles, became more radical and declared his government Socialist

Eisenhower's fault!

[BigSkyFreeper]

The fall of Communism

[Ramstein75]

Maybe the director and Oliver Stone(d) can get back together for a reunion in Cuba...Jeesh..why is this man always glamorized...I know the CIA and America are to blame for the Che assasination but c'mon..enough already...Let the people enjoy their "great" leader...perhaps Amnesty International can give a positive evaluation over there in Havana and show us Americans how to really treat people with respect and dignity! (Sorry about the rant)

[doug from upland]

Peter's friend, Frank Sturgis, tried eight times to have Castro killed. He also saved Reagan when he exposed a plot by Libyans to kill him. From freedom fighter to commie bastard. How much better life in Cuban might have been if one of Frank's attempts succeeded.

[piasa]

Sound familiar?

* Herbert Matthews :
The U.S betrayal of Cuba was based on two phony claims. The first was that Castro was anything but a communist. This was necessary in Order to hoodwink Americans and keep them asleep until after the fact. Toward this end the State Department had the close cooperation of the New York Times, a pillar of the Establishment. Only three months after Castro holed up in the Sierra Maestra, Herbert Matthews, a Times reporter with strong pro-revolution sympathies, was invited by Castro to interview him. The three stories which came out of Matthews' interview with Castro, featured on the front page of the Times, were a litany of stunning lies and fabrications.
After demonizing Cuba's president, Fulgencio Batista, Matthews described Fidel Castro as a "man of ideals" who "has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice and the need to hold elections." Not only was there "no communism in Castro's movement," but his program was "anti-communist." Thus began the colossal deception of the American public, an exact replica of the way in which, a few years earlier, the Times had vilified China's Chiang Kai-shek and concealed the fact that the Chinese rebels were communist.
Happy with Matthews' crimes against the truth, the State Department even required its newly appointed ambassador to Cuba, Earl Smith, to be briefed by him shortly after the mendacious articles appeared in the Times in the spring of 1957.
---- "Times Lends a Hand," The New American Feb. 19, 1996