[Luis Gonzalez]

What do we really KNOW, here in the US, about Fidel Castro?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[CounterCounterCulture]

BUMPING for later viewing.

[Norb2569]

BUMP for a later read!!

[SusanUSA]

From December 1956, the time Castro landed his armed expedition from Mexico against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista; to Batista's downfall on January 1, 1959; to President Eisenhower's approval of covert action against the Castro regime in March of 1960;(1) the U.S. ostensibly pursued a policy of non-intervention in the Caribbean area and the Western Hemisphere as a whole. Conceivably, the U.S. could have invoked the Rio Treaty(2) at any point during this time period given the information available to official Washington concerning Castro's involvement with international communism and the threat it posed to the national security interests of the United States.

Had the Castro communist revolution been viewed less as a rebellion from within or as an insurrection against the established order as it was portrayed and more for what it really was, a Trojan horse attack by the forces of international communism led by Fidel Castro, then U.S. policy makers would have dealt with it as such and Castro, disguised as a democrat, would never have been successful in taking over Cuba.

Thanks for the ping. What an informative article. I appreciate your posting this!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great information. Thank you, Luis.

[snippy_about_it]

Castro, disguised as a democrat,...

Mi amigo, we have many communists and socialists disguised as such in America, no?

Thanks for the ping Luis. I believe with all my heart that soon Cuba will be returned to her true people. Godspeed.

[Budge]

Excellent post, Luis.

I can't help but wonder just how large a part the American media played in Castro's rise to power. McCarthy was considered a fool by the media, and we bought it. No one wanted to believe Castro was a communist, and when the media told us he wasn't, we bought that too.

We were fools.