Posted on 11/30/2016 1:02:15 AM PST by detective
The third of six children, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 (although some sources claim that he was born a year later), in Cuba's eastern province of Oriente. His father, Angel, was a wealthy sugar plantation owner originally from Spain.
Raised in affluence while surrounded by poverty, Fidel Castro was educated in private Jesuit boarding schools. He attended El Colegio de Belen and pitched for the school's baseball team. After graduating in 1945, Castro entered law school at the University of Havana and immersed himself in the political climate of Cuban nationalism, anti-imperialism, and socialism.
In 1947 Castro participated in a (failed) effort to overthrow the dictator Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. He then returned to the University of Havana and joined the Partido Ortodoxo, an anti-communist political party whose stated priorities were nationalism, economic independence, and social reforms. Its founder, Cuban presidential candidate Eduardo Chibas, lost the 1948 election but became a hero of sorts to Castro.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
The real Castro was far different from the heroic figure dishonestly portrayed by the media.
"Yet within three months of his entry into Havana, Castro's firing squads had murdered an estimated 600 to 1,100 men and boys, and Cuba's jails held ten times the number of political prisoners as under Fulgencio Batista, whom Castro overthrew with claims to "liberating" Cuba.[3]
Barely a year in power, Castro was referring to the U.S. as "a vulture preying on humanity!" And most of Cuba's newspapers and TV stations (Cuba had more TVs per capita at the time than Germany, Canada or France) were under government control, to better serve "the people." Six months later he confiscated all U.S. properties on the island; 5,911 businesses worth $2 billion, along with most property and businesses owned by Cubans.[4]
On January 3, 1961, outgoing President Eisenhower finally declared, "there's a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure. That limit has been reached." He broke diplomatic relations with Cuba. During the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, Castro finally declared his revolution "Socialist," and in December of that year he pronounced himself "a lifelong Marxist-Leninist!" Cuba was now officially Communist."
Fidel is a really good man, now.
The only good communist is a dead communist.
I'd like to see Sean Penn's face when he reads it later because you know the fraud and other frauds like him will be there: at the funeral
"Among other Revolutionary "Comandantes" who fought alongside Castro against Batista and served early in Castro's regime, but weren't quite as fortunate as Matos, were Humberto Sori Marin and William "El Americano" Morgan. Both fell out with La Revolucion over Communism. And the way Castro saw it, they were the traitors, not him.
Humberto Sori Marin was arrested in April of 1961 as a counterrevolutionary and his brother Mariano went to visit Castro, pleading clemency for his brother. If for no other reason than "for old times sake," pleaded Mariano, recalling when Fidel and Humberto had been Revolutionary comrades.
"Don't worry Mariano," a smiling Castro said while slapping him affectionately on the back. "In the Sierra I learned to love your brother. Yes, he's in our custody, but completely safe from harm. Absolutely nothing will happen to him. Please give your mom and dad a big hug and big kiss from me and tell them to please calm down."[17]
The next day Mariano collapsed at the sight of his brother Humberto's mangled corpse in a mass grave. Castro's firing squad had pumped over 20 shots into his brother's body that very dawn. Humberto Sori Marin's head was almost completely obliterated, his face unrecognizable.
""Kneel and beg for your life!" Castro's executioners taunted the bound and helpless William Morgan as he glowered at Castro's firing squad in April 1961.
"I kneel for no man!" former Rebel Comandante Morgan snarled back, according to eye witness John Martino in his book, I Was Castro's Prisoner.
"Very well, Meester Weel-yam Morgan," replied his executioners, who were aiming low, on purpose -- "FUEGO!"
The first volley shattered Morgan's knees. He collapsed snarling and writhing. "See, Meester Morgan?" giggled a voice from above. "We made you kneel, didn't we?" Over the next few minutes as he lay writhing, four more bullets slammed into Morgan, all very carefully aimed to miss vitals. Finally an executioner walked up and emptied a Tommy gun clip into Morgan's back.[18]"
I never knew just how brutal and cruel a dictator Castro was (with Che Guevara’s assistance) until reading this article which is excellent but a little long but definitely worth the read. And to think he studied to be an attorney and came from a privileged background then took over the government to enrich himself and live like a king while he enacted rations on all of his peasants and made them starve and killed any dissenters. Sounds sort of familiar doesn’t it which reminds me... I need to find Colin Kaspernick’s email address. I think he and a lot of leftists need some new material to read...: )
Jesuit. Interesting.
Truly a monster. There’s no other way to describe him.
He and Che are brothers again now, sharing a hot boarding room (bed) in Hell.
I knew a cuban woman who had left Cuba during the exodus in the Camarioca boatlift as a young girl.
Until the last time I saw her just a few years ago, even a casual mention of Castro could elicit a violent spit.
You left out Scum, making that P.i.S.S.
;>)
But PIS will work within standard publishing guidelines.
and all he basically became was an outright murderer....
and from a murderer, he became a mass murderer....
may justice on his soul be served...
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