Posted on 03/12/2019 4:54:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
The yells of “DOWN WITH COMMUNISM!” and “LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING!” would make the walls of the prison tremble!” wrote a 21-year-old poet who’d been imprisoned, tortured and threatened with a firing squad by photogenic U.S. media-hailed “hipsters” who’d recently nationalized most of his nation’s means of production.
The defiant yells the imprisoned poet heard almost daily through the window of his gloomy dungeon were always cut short by another one of “FUEGO!” and a thundering blast -- as Che Guevara’s firing-squads murdered defiant young heroes.
At the time the poet, name Armando Valladares, was younger than Nick Jonas is today, and the defiantly yelling heroes (some seen here: were mostly about the age of Justin Beiber.
“Fidel Castro could have been Cuba’s Elvis!” (Dan Rather)
Women and girls were also being rounded and crammed into dungeons and torture chambers by the photogenic U.S. media-hailed-“hipsters.” Cary Roque, for instance, was captured and jailed by Castro and Che Guevara’s KGB-trained secret police when she was younger than Miley Cyrus is today. She spent 17 torture-filled years in Cuba’s dungeons.
Last year President Trump made a point of presenting señora Roque during one of his speeches in Miami while warmly accepting her hug and kiss on the cheek. When Cary Roque was finally released from her 17 years of prison horrors she was the same age as Ilhan Omar is today.
“Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly—even paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure!” (Andrea Mitchell.)
But perhaps my term “U.S.-hailed hipsters” strikes some of my amigos as unnecessarily hyperbolic, or even untrue? Fair enough. Let’s have a look:
“They saw in Castro and Che Guevara the hipster who in the era of the Organization Man had joyfully defied the system, summoned a dozen friends and overturned a government of wicked old men.” (Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Special assistant to President Kennedy, Camelot historian, and Harvard Professor.)
“Castro’s is a revolution of youth,” (Herbert Matthews, New York Times 1961.)
“I’m going back to Cuba to kill Che Guevara!” snarled Jose Castano (then 17) to fellow paratrooper Manel Menedez (then 22). These youths were then in Guatemala training as members of Brigade 2506 for what came to be known as the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Among Jose Castano and Manel Menendez’s Band of Brothers in Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs invasion was 16-year-old Felipe Rodon who on April 17th, 1961 grabbed his 57 mm cannon and ran to face one of Castro’s Stalin tanks point-blank on that bloody Bay of Pigs beachhead. At 10 yards Felipe fired at the clanking monster and it exploded, but the momentum kept it going and the Soviet tank sent over by the fat and wicked old men in the Kremlin rolled over little Felipe.
Gilberto Hernandez was 17 when a round from a Czech burp gun put out his eye on that same beachead. Soviet-led Castro troops were swarming in but he held his ground, firing furiously with his recoilless rifle for another hour until the Soviet-trained Castroites finally surrounded him and killed him with a shower of grenades.
When he hit the beach at the Bay of Pigs, Jose Antonio San Roman, the Military Commander of Brigade 2506, was 27 years old. His 2nd in command Erneido Oliva was 27. The Political delegate of the Provisional government head, Manuel Artime, was 28. All were younger than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is today.
Among the leaders of the Anti-Castro Cuban underground of the time were Rogelio González, Alberto Tapia, and Virgilio Campaneria. None was older than 26 in 1961 when murdered by Soviet- armed firing squads. Seventeen other college kids were murdered by Castro and Che’s firing squads that week in early 1961. Far from belonging to “Batista’s wicked old men,” all these youngsters had fought the Batista regime. You will search for any mention of this by the New York Times or the media in general in utter vain.
As usual for foreign commentators on the Cuban Revolution, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, the New York Times et al. weren’t just wrong; they were smugly propounding the very opposite of the truth. Cuban “children” were in positions of power alright, but as armed opponents of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. These youngsters were also paying for their bravery with their lives—and by the thousands. Most of the ones captured stood tall, proud, defiant (and silent) through ghastly torture by Castro’s secret-police, then being tutored by wicked-old men from the Kremlin (KGB). But the Cuban kids went to their deaths by Castroite firing-squad defiantly yelling “Down with Communism!”
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And today...millennials know more about 14th century French art and where the best brunch is than they do about anything in this article.
JFK should burn in hell for deliberately lying and abandoning those men at the Bay of pigs.
It seems to be with Democrats to best, think Benghazi.
We can thank our media and universities for Anti Americanism. I’m surprised with parents who pay for their off-spring to attend anti-American universities.
With 1,500 ex-pats against nearly 250,000 Cubans, there was never a real chance that their "invasion" would amount to anything.
I went to school (University of Florida) with a Bay of Pigs survivor, as well as several who had escaped before Castro. Talk of Cuba was usually preceded by several unprintable words.
And they make heroes of fools like AOC and Bernie Sanders.
In Basic Training, at Ft. Jackson, SC in ‘65, my company excecutive officer, 1LT Cruz, was a survivor of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
He was a tough and fair officer. One day, at the Noon Chow Line, I fell off of the monkey bars short of the end, under his watchful eye. I ran back to the end of the line, and made it through the second time. He gave me a smile and a nod. It was like getting a medal, for me.
That may be, but it’s irrelevant in regards to JFK’s betrayal. he had clearly promised air support, the air support was ready and available, he was at, I believe, a dinner party when the military asked him when they could send in the air support, he told them never mind.
Those men were pounded into the sand for 3 days.
I come from the school where if you do not have personal honor and loyalty, you are worthless. And that’s what I think of JFK, Obama, Hillary and every other Democrat who has hanged somebody out to dry.
Dante has a special circle in hell for the betrayers.
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No argument from me on JFK's betrayal. My issue is that the plan that Ike conceived was ill-formed if not laughable. He believed that the Cubans would rise up against Fidel at the first opportunity. Hitler felt the same way about Russia.
Orange Man Bad
Che Good
Yep, those to Buckeye. Today we suffer because so many have a college education but cannot do any vocation with using their brains and hands.
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