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“Those Cuban-CIA men (Bay of Pigs vets) were as tough, dedicated and impetuous a group of soldiers as I’ve ever had the honor of commanding,” wrote legendary anti-communist mercenary “Mad Mike” Hoare, commander of the “Wild Geese,” in his book Congo Mercenary. ''This is the history of a failure,'' said the oddly frank opening lines of Che Guevara’s Congo Dairies. “I stood above Che Guevara, my boots near his head, just as Che had once stood over my dear friend and fellow 2506 Brigade member, Nestor Pino. ‘We're going to kill you all," Che said to Pino.’ Now, the situation...

“Felix’s life has been dedicated to fighting communism, to supporting freedom, to supporting liberty, and we appreciate Felix as a brave and courageous freedom fighter,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “From his service as a paramilitary officer with the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bay of Pigs Invasion to a Colonel in the United States Army at the height of the Vietnam War, Felix has marked his legacy as one of the bravest fighters for freedom in history. I am honored to award Felix the Governor’s Medal of Freedom and may God bless him and the Great State of Florida.” “Rodríguez...

Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous beret is gone. His iconic beard is filthy and matted against skeletal cheekbones. One bushy eyebrow arches over his half-open eyes. As a Bolivian country surgeon methodically saws off his lifeless hands, Che appears vaguely amused. Gustavo Villoldo, a stocky figure in green army fatigues, stands just inside the tiny laundry room where the Cuban revolutionary's corpse rests atop a sink. For five months, the CIA operative has led soldiers hunting Guevara through the rough crags and valleys of southern Bolivia. Less than 24 hours ago, his team had captured and executed him in a village...

Hero. Rebel. Revolutionary. These are words one often hears in association with Ernesto Che Guevara. But they are not words you will often hear in Miami where many people see Che Guevara as a brutal guerrilla who brought Cuba nothing but misery with his communist ideals. One of those anti-Che voices in Miami belongs to Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-born former CIA agent who was part of the mission of CIA operatives and Bolivian army forces that captured and killed Che Guevara in October 1967. Forty years on, how does he feel about the role he played in ending the life...

In early March, Felix Rodriguez was appointed president of Citgo, the largest subsidiary of Petroleos De Venezuela SA, Venezuela's state-owned oil corporation. Rodriguez, a left-wing “populist,” is a close ally of the country’s Marxist ruler, Hugo Chavez. Commented the March 17 Houston Chronicle: “The arrival of Rodriguez, whose style is more reminiscent of the boisterous Chavez than a typical top energy executive, puts a new face at the head of the huge Houston-based refining and marketing operation.” Rodriguez’s ascent “also coincided with the arrival of several new board members, including Bernard Mommer, a German-born Marxist and behind-the-scenes architect of Chavez’s...

Contra Campaign An Iran-Contra conspirator joins the Swift Boat crowd. It was bound to happen.  BY BOB NORMANbob.norman@newtimesbpb.com Felix tells the vets in D.C. that Kerry is a liar.     The life of Felix I. Rodriguez provides a tour through the dark heart of America. From the Bay of Pigs fiasco to Vietnam to the El Salvador death squads to the Iran-Contra scandal, the Cuban exile and self-described "CIA hero" was there. His most famous assassination mission came in 1967, when he led the Bolivian army group that captured and summarily executed leftist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He's...

John Kerry says he is a friend of Cuban-Americans and a born again foe of Fidel Castro. Don’t believe it, celebrated and decorated CIA agent Felix I. Rodriguez, co-author of “Shadow Warrior: The CIA Hero of a Hundred Unknown Battles,” tells NewsMax. Rodriguez, who has battled Kerry through the years, says Kerry is “simply a liar and self-promoter.” Presently retired in Miami, Fl. and a leader in the Cuban American community serving as the president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, Rodriguez first tangled with Kerry when the senator spearheaded the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics in 1987....

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN!--THE KERRY COMMITTEE? By Humbetro Fontova Say what you want about Senator John Kerry, nobody ever called him lazy. He landed in Congress and immedeatly rolled up his sleeves and spat on his hands. The Nicaraguan people MUST end up like the Cuban and Vietnamese! Toward this end the man was tireless. The vision inspired him to such a staggering work load, energized him to such a frantic pace, propelled him to such legislative feats, that his colleagues--even the pinkest-- gaped in envy and awe. Back then Nicaragua was the true believers' latest City On a Hill, Daniel...