Humberto Fontova

Estremecedor relato de la verdadera cara del régimen de Fidel Castro, con testimonios de testigos y protagonistas de primera mano.

¿Cómo es posible que cientos de madres desesperadas prefieran meterse con sus hijos a bordo de una balsa en un mar infestado de tiburones a permanecer en «el paraíso castrista»?

Y cómo es posible que, al mismo tiempo, determinadas celebridades afirmen:

• «El socialismo funciona. Creo que Cuba podría demostrarlo» (Chevy Chase).
• Castro es «muy moral y desinteresado […] uno de los hombres más sabios del mundo» (Oliver Stone).
• «Fidel, te quiero. Los dos tenemos las mismas iniciales. Los dos tenemos barba. Ambos tenemos poder y queremos usarlo con buenos propósitos» (Francis Ford Coppola).
• «El régimen de Castro ha sido un ejemplo que constituye una enseñanza para todos» (Kofi Annan).

Humberto Fontova nos descubre y recuerda verdades sobre la Cuba de Castro demasiado incómodas para ciertas «élites intelectuales»: los atentados terroristas frustrados en Nueva York en 1962, la connivencia de la CIA con la toma del poder por Castro, la verdad sobre Bahía de Cochinos, la represión de la revuelta campesina de Sierra Escambray contra el régimen comunista, la masacre del remolcador 13 de Marzo, hundido por la armada castrista, o la verdadera personalidad e historia del Che Guevara.… (mer)

If you want to know what Fidel Castro and his brother Raul along with the Argentinian "doctor" Ernesto "Che" Guevara did to Cuba after Batista, you need to read this book. Having said that, the one major drawback of this book are the personal axes that author Humberto Fontova has to grind. Fontova, along with his siblings and mother were able to escape Cuba in 1961. His father couldn't leave with them at the time as he had been detained for questioning by Che and his henchmen. Usually those detained by Che were never seen by their families again. Luckily Fontova's father was released and able to join the rest of the family in Miami.

Most books about Che idolize him and tell us what a great liberator he was in Cuba, the Congo, and Bolivia. You won't get that in this book. Fontova tells us like it was with well done research and interviews with those who were there when this all happened.

Glad I have it on my shelf. I'll refer to it again and won't read another book that idolizes this brutal executioner by the name of "Che" Guevara… (mer)