5 Ibid.
6 Oscar Yanes, Pura Pantalla, Planeta, 2000
7 Anthony DePalma, Op. cit. p. 158
8 Julio Lobo, Commencement Speech to graduating class, Louisiana State University, 1963
9 Javier Arzuaga, Op. cit.
7. To Kill a Labor Leader: Manhunt in Buenos Aires
1 Carlos Bringuier, interview with the author
2 Enrique Ros, Che: Mito y Realidad, Ediciones Universal, 2002, p. 189
3 Rufo Lopez Fresquet, My Fourteen Months With Castro, World Publishing Company, 1966
4 Harry Truman, The Washington Post, July 31, 1959
5 Dwight Eisenhower, presidential press conference, July 15, 1959
6 Anthony DePalma, The Man Who Invented Fidel, Perseus Book Group, 2006, p. 178
7 U.S. Department of State, Bulletin, Volume XLVII, No. 1213, September 24, 1962
8 Roger Hilsman, The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Struggle Over Policy. Praeger, 1996, p. 39
9 Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-63, Harper Collins, 1991, p. 27
10 Anthony DePalma, Op. cit. p. 175
8. Papa Hemingway Admires Death in the Cuban Afternoon
1 Anthony DePalma, The Man Who Invented Fidel, Perseus Book Group, 2006, p. 198
2 Humberto Fontova, Exposing the Real Che Guevara,Sentinel, 2007, p. 31
3 James Scott Linville, Shooting Script, Standpoint Magazine, January 2009
9. Castro’s “Revolution of Youth”—Imprisoning the Young
1 Anthony DePalma, The Man Who Invented Fidel, Perseus Book Group, 2006, p. 201
2 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002, p. 220
3 Daniel James, Che Guevara: A Biography, Stein & Day, 1969, p. 276
4 Jon Lee Anderson, Che: A Revolutionary Life, Grove Press, 1997, p. 617
5 Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, interviews with the author
6 Association of ex-Cuban Political Prisoners, interviews with the author
7 “Equal opportunity killing: Victims under age 18 of the Castro regime in Cuba,” CubaNet, http://www.cubanet.org/refdis/05210401.htm
8 Leo Sauvage, Che Guevara, The Failure of a Revolutionary, Prentice Hall, 1973, p. 126
9 Letter from Paquito D‘Rivera to Kris Kristofferson and Stephen Stills, Latin American Studies, May 21, 2005
10 Dave Zimmer, Crosby Stills and Nash: The Biography, Da Capo Press, 2008, p. 209
11 Ibid.
12 Canek Sanchez Guevara, Revista Proceso, October 2004
10. Jon Stewart to Don Fidel: Thank You, Godfather
1 http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/Perez-Mendez-debriefing.pdf
2 A. Padilla, “The Tourism Industry in the Caribbean After Castro,” Association for The Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), June 19, 2003. http://www.ascecuba.org/publicationsproceedings/volume13/pdfs/padilla.pdf
3 Julio Alvarado, La Aventura Cubana, Artes Graficas y Ediciones, 1977. pp. 794-95. Julio Alvarado was a Bolivian-born economist who served as an executive for Cuba’s National Bank from 1948 to 1959. Like most of his colleagues he was adamantly anti-Batista; but the barrage of Castroite propaganda regarding economic conditions in pre-Castro Cuba inspired him to compile this 885-page statistical book in order to set the record straight.
4 Ibid.
5 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Investment in Cuba: Basic information for United States Businessmen, 1956
6 Alvarado, Op. cit.
7 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Op. cit.
8 Statement by the President on United States Commitment to Open Investment Policy, The White House Office of the Press Secretary, June 20, 2011
9 Carlos Alberto Montaner, Fidel Castro y La Revolucion Cubana, Piscataway, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 1984
10 Kirby Smith and Hugo Llorens, “Renaissance and Decay: A Comparison of Socioeconomic Indicators in Pre-Castro Cuba and Current-Day Cuba,” The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), August 1998
11 Mario Lazo, Dagger in the Heart: American Policy Failures in Cuba, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid..
14 Julio Alvarado, Op. cit.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ileana Fuentes, “De Casa Marina a Casa Mariela,” Diario de Cuba, August 11, 2011
18 http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/culture/2010-03-16cuban-writer-enrique-cirilo-accuses-us-writer-of-plagiarism
19 Lazo, Op. cit.
20 Eusebio Penalver, interview with the author
21 One of the delegates exclaimed: “Castro is a very engaging, down-to-earth and kind man, someone I would favor as a neighbor!”
11. Not Your Father’s Hit-Men: Gangsters in Cuba Today
1 Humberto Fontova, Fidel; Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
2 Ibid.
3 Frederick Tempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s BungledAffair with Noriega, Putnam, 1990, p. 192
4 Ibid.
5 Tim Weiner, “Bay of Pigs Enemies Finally Sit Down Together,” The New York Times, March 23, 2001
6 Georgie Ann Geyer, Guerrilla Prince, Little Brown & Co. 1991, p. 240
7 T. Smith, The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution, Random House, 1962, pp. 30–52
9 Alba Escobar and Nelson Rubio, “Programa Actualidad,” October 24, 2011
10 Karla Zabludovsky, “Police Find 49 Bodies by a Highway in Mexico,” The New York Times, May 13, 2012
11 “No end to violence in Mexico, experts say,” FoxNews Latino, May 15, 2012
12 Jess Hill and George Grayson, “Fears Mexican drug gan spreading to other countries,” ABC Radio, February 11, 2011
13 FoxNews Latino, Op. cit.
14 “Mexico investigates massacre of 72 illegal immigrants,” Associated Press, August 26, 2010
15 Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,” The Washington Times, April 19, 2011
16 Juan Tamayo, “Alarma por creciente influencia de Cuba en Cancun,” El Nuevo Herald, June 27, 2010
17 Ibid.
18 “Relacionan a Niurka con tráfico de ilegales,” Servicios Informativos y Publicitarios del Sureste (SIPSE), June 7, 2010
19 Ibid.
20 Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,” The Washington, Times, April 19, 2011
21 Menachem Gantz, “Hezbollah Opens Base in Cuba,” Ynet News, September 9, 2011
22 Michael Ware, “Los Zetas called Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel,” CNN, August 6, 2009
23 “Napolitano: Border security better than ever,” CBS News, March 25, 2011
24 Mary Ellen Resendez, ABC 15 News, June 14, 2010
25 KVOA News, “Bureau of Land Management warns motorists who travel along 1-8,” June 16, 2010
26 Resendez, Op. cit.
27 Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,” The Washington, Times, April 19, 2011
28 Ed Vulliamy, Amexica; War Along the Borderline, Bodley Head, 2010
29 Marc Lacey, “Escalating drug violence traumatizes Mexico’s children,” The New York Times, October 21, 2008
30 Vera Chan, “Big Story: Mexico’s six-year drug war behind the Mother’s Day massacre,” Yahoo News, May 15, 2012
31 Ibid.
32 Jess Hill & George Grayson, “Fears Mexican drug gang spreading to other countries,” ABC Radio, February 11, 2011
12. How Barack Obama Tried to Lose Honduras to the Dictators
1 Humberto Fontova, Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005, p. 50
2 “Los tentaculos de las Farc en Venezuela,” El Espectador, May, 8, 2010
3 Catherine E. Shoichet, “One word with many meanings translates into sports controversy,” CNN, November 17, 2011
4 President Roberto Micheletti, interview with the author
5 “The Refuseniks of Cuba,” May 20, 2012
6 Cliff Kincaid, interviewwith the author
7 “Cuba Dissident Released from Jail after Alleged Beating, Rubio Says,” FoxNews Latino, June 14, 2012
13. Keep Your Pants On, Stephen Colbert. Che Wasn’t That Hot
1 “Benicio Del Toro, ‘Latino Brad Pitt’, wins Cannes award as ‘Che’,” Agence France-Presse (AFP), May 25, 2008
2 Simon Hattenstone, “Dammit, this guy is cool”, The Guardian, November 28, 2008
3 “Havana Hails ‘Che’ and Benicio Del Toro’s Performance,” Latin American Herald Tribune, December 8, 2008
4 http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/Perez-Mendezdebriefing.pdf
5 CNN Entertainment, January 1, 2009
6 Paul Bethel, The Losers: The Definitive Report, by an Eyewitness, of the Communist Conquest of Cuba and the Soviet Penetration in Latin America, Arlington House, 1969, p. 51
7 Nestor Carbonell, And the Russians Stayed: The Sovietization of Cuba, Morrow, 1989
8 Castro Speech Database, Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas at Austin
9 Humberto Fontova, Exposing the Real Che Guevara, Sentinel, 2007
10 Ibid.
11 Felix Rodriguez, interview with the author
12 Roberto Martin-Perez, interviewwith the author
13 http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticleaspx?ARTID=33786
14 Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Norton, 1998, p. 87
15 Miguel Sanchez in interview with Oscar Haza, “A Mano Limpia,” America TeVe, October 27, 2009
16 Ibid.
17 Javier Arzuaga, Confesiones de un sacerdote, El Veraz, 2006
18 Dariusz Tolczyk, See No Evil, Yale University Press, 1999
19 Humberto Fontova, Fidel; Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
20 Daniel Frankel & Sharon Waxman, “Veteran Hollywood/D.C. Publicist Stephen River Dies,” The Wrap, June 8, 2010; http://wwwthewrap.com/deal-central/ind-column/veteran-hollywooddc-publiciststephen-rivers-dies-18154?page=0,1
21 Margarita Alarcon, “A Life Worth Living,” The Huffington Post, June 8, 2010; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margarittaalarcon/a-life-worth-living_b_604873.html
22 See note 4, above.
14. Sickos! The Cuban Health-Care Hoax, Directed by Michael Moore
1 Juan Tamayo, “Coverage comes with price of self-censorship,” The Miami Herald, February 28, 2010
2 Humberto Fontova, Fidel; Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
3 Rene Rodriguez, “Cuban healthcare is painted rosy in ‘Sicko,’ critics say,” The Miami Herald, June 23, 2007
4 The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 1999
5 Gonzalo Guimaraens, “Vacuna Cubana Contra la Menningitis Ineficacia Comprobada,” Revista Guaracabuya, July 2000
6 Katherine Hirschfeld, Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898, Transaction Publishers, 2006
7 Ibid.
8 “Megaphone for a Dictator: CNN’s Coverage of Fidel Castro’s Cuba,” Media Research Center, May 9, 2002
9 Ibid.
10 Melisa Scott, “Healthy in Cuba, Sick in America?” ABC News, September 7, 2007
11 “Medical Journal Exposes Cuba’s Failed Doctor Diplomacy,” Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, October 2000
12 Ibid.
13 Lynn Davidson, “Did CNN Instruct Reporters to Sanitize Coverage of Fidel Castro?” Newsbusters, February 20, 2008
15. The Cuban “Embargo”—Are You Kidding?
1 Humberto Fontova, Fidel; Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
2 Julio Alvarado, La Aventura Cubana, Madrid, Artes Graficas y Ediciones, 1977
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Nick Miroff , “U.S. Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are Eased,” NPR, February 6, 2012
6 “U.S. food sales to Cuba continued decline in 2011,” Reuters, February 22, 2012
7 Pascal Fletcher, “Cuba will not accept ‘IMF-imposed’ debt solution,” Reuters, July 7 1999
8 “Statement issued by Geordin Hill Lewis, DA, Shadow Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa,” Politics Web, February 6, 2012
9 Juan Tamayo, “WikiLeaks: Even China complained Cuba wasn’t paying its bills,” The Miami Herald, December 10, 2010
10 “Cuban authorities arrest British man in corruption probe,” The Miami Herald, April 25, 2012; see also http://www.economist.com/node/21555590
11 Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba, May 24, 2000
12 “Defector Warns of Social Explosion in Cuba,” The Washington, Post, August 13, 2002
13 Nestor Carbonell, And the Russians Stayed; The Sovietization of Cuba, William Morrow & Co., 1989
14 Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-63, Volume X, Cuba
15 Daryl Lembke, “Cuban Spy Link to Ford, Reagan Death Plot Probed,” Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1976
16 “Clinton Receptive to Castro Overture to Discuss ‘Everything,’” Fox News, April 17, 2009
17 Jose Azel, “Cuba’s Internet Repression Equals Groupthink,” The Miami Herald, February 27, 2011
18 “Cuba’s communist secret agent betrays the Grand Lodge of Cuba,” Masonic Times, April, 2, 2011
19 Soviet Archives of Vladimir Bukovsky
20 Paul Haven, “Cuba finds American guilty of crimes against the state,” Associated Press, March 12, 2011
21 Humberto Fontova, “Why we remain resolute against traveling to Cuba,” The Miami Herald, March, 10, 2012
22 Sean Reilly, “Analyst’s switch stirs tanker talk,” Mobile Press-Register, June 9, 2008
16. “Agents of Influence”—Castro’s Ladies and Men in the U.S. Media
1 George Gedda, “Official: Cuba May Help Rogue States With Biological Expertise,” Associated Press, May, 6, 2002
2 Joel Brenner, “Strategic Counterintelligence,” American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, March 29, 2007
3 “Huye a Miami Alcibiades Hidalgo, ex embajador de Cuba en la ONU,” ABC (Madrid), June 28, 2002
4 Armando Valladares, “Their men in higher ed,” The Washington, Times, June, 18, 2009
5 Ibid.
6 Alfonso Chardy, “Spy Catcher claims four are agents for Cuba,” The Miami Herald, August, 8, 2008
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Col. Simmons, interview with the author
10 Jesus Perez Mendez debriefing, latinamericanstudies.org
11 Humberto Fontova, “Obama’s Lovefest with Cold War Foe,” The Washington Times, May 12, 2012
12 Jeff Jacoby, “Castro’s Cheerleaders,” The Boston Globe, May 8, 2003
17. Barbara Walters, Charmed by the Hemisphere’s Top Torturer of Women
1 Barbara Walters, “An Interview with Fidel Castro,” Foreign Policy, September 1977
2 Ibid.
3 Barbara Walters, interview with Fidel Castro, “ABC 20/20,” October 11, 2002
4 Ana Rodriguez and Glenn Garvin, Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women’s Prison, St Martin’s Press, 1995
5 Ibid.
6 Mignon Medrano, Todo lo dieron por Cuba, Fundacion Nacional Cubano Americana, 1995
7 Ibid.
8 Beth Reinhard, “McCain: Keep Cuba embargo in place,” The Miami Herald, May 20, 2008
9 Roberto Martin-Perez, interview with the author
10 Medrano, Op. cit.
11 Walters, Foreign Policy, Op. cit.
12 Medrano, Op. cit.
18. Dan Rather on Castro: “This Is Cuba’s Elvis!”
1 Edward Murrow, “See it Now,” CBS, February 6, 1959
2 Pedro Porro, interview with the author
3 Ibid.
4 “The Gardens of the Queen,” CBS, December 18, 2011
INDEX
A
A&E (Arts & Entertainment Network)
Abascal, Gerardo
ABC (Madrid)
ABC (American Broadcasting System)
Abrams, Elliott
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Acevedo, Jose
Acosta, Antonio Ruiz
Acosta, Felicito
Acosta, Ruben
Acosta, Teofilo
Accuracy in Media
“Adonis G.B.,” Cuban refugee
Aerogaviota
Africa, Cuban military intervention in
African National Congress (ANC)
Against All Hope (see also Valladares, Armando)
“Age of Aquarius,”
Agence France-Presse
Agency for International Development (U.S.)
Aguilera, Hermes
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Al Jazeera
Al Qaissia, Moutaz
Alarcon, Margarita
Alarcon, Ricardo
Alarcon Ramirez, Dariel
Albright, Sec. Madeleine K.
Alfonso, Julio Cesar
Alien (film)
Aliens, Special Interest (SIAs)
Alis, Krupskaia
Allen, Woody
Allende, Salvador
Almeida, Joaquim de
Alvarado, Julio
Alvarez, Yisel
Alvarez Cardentey, Miguel
Amanpour, Christiane
Ambrosino, Christine
American Film Institute
American Journal of Nursing
“American Series” (PBS)
Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba (AHTC)
Amoedo, Ambassador Julio
Analisio, Placido
“Anatomy of a Sharkbite” (see Discovery Channel)
Anaya, Carlos
Anderson, Howard
Andreas, Dwayne
Angola
Animal Farm
“Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart” (see also Berlin Wall)
AP (see Associated Press)
Apartheid (Cuba)
Apartheid (South Africa; see also Mandela, Nelson)
Archer Daniels Midland
Argentina
Arizona (U.S.)
Armed Forces, Cuban