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		<title>Obama Comes to Castro&#8217;s Rescue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/castro.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247880" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/castro-450x311.jpg" alt="U.S. President Obama greets Cuban President Castro at the memorial service for Mandela in Johannesburg" width="285" height="197" /></a>Did you notice the timing of  President Obama’s economic lifeline to Castro as announced on December 17<sup>th</sup> under the guise of “changing [our] relations with the <i>people </i>[emphasis mine] of Cuba?”</p>
<p>No? But you <i>have </i>noticed the price at the gas pumps, right? These two items are closely related. Oh, and by the way, every atom of evidence shows that the actual <i>people </i>of Cuba actually want U.S. sanctions against the Stalinist regime that tortures them <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/06/over-830-cuban-democracy-activists-sign.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tightened</span></a>. So perhaps President Obama should stop insulting the intelligence of Cuba-watchers by claiming to speak and act on their behalf.  Here’s their reaction to this week’s early Christmas gift from Obama to the Stalinist dictator who tortures them:</p>
<p>&#8220;Sadly, President Obama made the wrong decision. The freedom and democracy of the Cuban people will not be achieved through these benefits that he&#8217;s giving &#8212; not to the Cuban people &#8212; but to the Cuban government. The Cuban government will only take advantage to strengthen its repressive machinery, to repress civil society, its people and remain in power.&#8221;  (Berta Soler, leader of &#8220;The Ladies in White,&#8221;<i> </i>Cuba’s biggest dissident group.</p>
<p>“[Alan Gross] was not arrested for what he did, but for what could be gained from his arrest. He was simply bait and they were aware of it from the beginning<i>&#8230; </i>Castroism has won.” (Yoani Sanchez, Cuba’s most internationally famous dissident.)</p>
<p>&#8220;I feel as though I have been abandoned on the battlefield.&#8221; (Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet<b>, </b>former Cuban political prisoner awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush.)</p>
<p>The list of back-stabbed and outraged Cuban dissidents <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/12/cuban-dissident-leaders-react-to-obamas.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is much, much longer.</span></a></p>
<p>At any rate, Cuba’s post-Soviet sugar-daddy (Venezuela) is currently in dire economic straits from the precipitous plunge in the price of oil, Venezuela’s top export. Their economic lifeline to the Castro regime looks shaky, hence the “Here I come to save the day!” by President Obama.</p>
<p>But let’s face it. Castro’s Stalinist regime has jailed, tortured and murdered tens of thousands (including some U.S. citizens) for over half a decade and most Americans don’t seem to give a flying flip. Fine. So let’s consult yet another Cuban dissident who actually serves up some red meat.  Let’s notify Joe Sixpack and Soccer Mom (who quite understandably find all this human-rights stuff regarding a foreign country utterly irrelevant) that maybe it’s time to pay closer attention to the issue:</p>
<p>“If the U.S. allows financing towards Cuba, it will be the U.S. taxpayers who would sustain the Castro regime<i>. </i>Since it has run out of doors to knock on [for credit], the Castro regime is now focused on the United States.&#8221;<i>  </i>(Cuban dissident and three-time Amnesty-International prisoner of conscience Rene Gomez Manzanoin.)</p>
<p>Well, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the farm lobby, Council on Foreign Relations and Castro’s agents of influence (but I repeat myself) understandably avoid this issue like the plague, hence its invisibility in the mainstream media. So please listen up: For over a decade the so-called U.S. embargo, so disparaged by President Obama, has mostly stipulated that Castro’s Stalinist regime pay <i>cash up front</i> through a third-party bank for all U.S. agricultural products; no Ex-Im (U.S. taxpayer) financing of such sales. And that’s what infuriates Castro, and motivates his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>U.S. agents of influence.</i></span></a><i> </i></p>
<p>Enacted by the Bush team in 2001, this cash-up-front policy has been monumentally beneficial to U.S. taxpayers, making them among the few in the world not rooked by the Castro regime, which per capita-wise qualifies as the world’s biggest debtor nation, with a foreign debt estimated at $50 billion, a credit rating nudging Somalia’s and an uninterrupted record of defaults. Standard &amp; Poors refuses even to rate Cuba, regarding the economic figures released by its Stalinist apparatchiks as utterly bogus. Just this year the Russians wrote off almost $30 billion Castro still owed them.</p>
<p>Interesting that a Cuban dissident should plumb this matter more accurately than those “champions of the U.S. taxpayers,” Rand Paul and Jeff Flake, who loudly applauded President Obama’s Christmas present to Castro this week. From the White House “Fact Sheet; Charting a New Course on Cuba”:</p>
<p>* U.S. institutions will be permitted to open correspondent accounts at Cuban financial institutions to facilitate the processing of authorized transactions.</p>
<p>* The regulatory definition of the statutory term “cash in advance” <i>will be revised to specify that it means “cash before transfer of title”; this will provide more efficient financing of authorized trade with Cuba.</i></p>
<p>Whoops! Though still a bit sketchy, it certainly sounds like we’re moving in the direction Rene Gomez warned against. This matter was recently explained in more detail by a Townhall columnist on Canada’s <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3949008632001"><span style="color: #0433ff;">SunNews network.</span></a></p>
<p>Obama claims we’ve been “isolating” Cuba. Again, stop insulting our intelligence, Mr. President. To wit:</p>
<p>In 1957 when Cuba was a “U.S. economic colony,” as we’re constantly told by the media (though U.S. investments in Cuba accounted for only 14 per cent the island’s GNP), the U.S. exported $347.5 million worth of goods to Cuba.</p>
<p>In 2013 (when Cuba was being “strangled by a U.S. economic blockade,” was we’re constantly told by the media) the U.S. exported $457.3 million to Cuba. In fact for every year Obama has been in office the “Cuba-embargoing” U.S. has exported more goods to Cuba than it did in 1957.</p>
<p>In 1957 (when Cuba was a “playground for U.S. tourists,” as we’re constantly told by the media) 263,000 people visited Cuba from the U.S</p>
<p>In 2013 (when Cuba was being diabolically “blockaded” by the U.S., according to the media) an estimated 500,000 people visited Cuba from the U.S.  So under Obama <i>twice as many people</i> are visiting Cuba as in the golden 1950s.</p>
<p>In 1958 with Cuba under a “U.S.-backed dictator,” with the U.S. “controlling Cuba’s economy,” (according to the media, though in fact, U.S. companies employed 7 percent of Cuba’s workforce) the staff of the U.S. embassy in Cuba numbered 87, including Cuban employees.</p>
<p>Today with supposedly no diplomatic relations with Cuba (according to the media) the staff of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana numbers 351, including Cuban employees. In fact, for well over a decade the U.S. has had <i>twice </i>as many diplomatic personnel in Havana as Canada and Mexico <i>combined.</i> In the Twilight Zone occupied by the U.S. media this is termed “diplomatic isolation.”</p>
<p>In executive order after executive order, President Obama has already abolished President Bush’s travel and remittance restrictions to Castro’s terror-sponsoring fiefdom and opened the pipeline to a point where the cash-flow from the U.S. to Cuba last year was estimated at $4 billion a year. While a proud Soviet satrapy Cuba received $3-5 billion annually from the Soviets. In brief, almost every year since Obama took office more cash has been flowing from the U.S. to Cuba than used to flow there from the Soviets at the height of their Cuba-sponsorship. In the Twilight Zone occupied by the mainstream media this is known as an “economic embargo.”</p>
<p>In sum, the proof is long in: record tourism and foreign investment into Cuba = record repression for the Cuban people. Every shred of observable evidence proves that travel to Cuba and business with its Stalinist mafia enriches and entrenches these KGB-trained and heavily-armed owners of Cuba’s economy. Thus they remain the most highly motivated guardians of Cuba’s Stalinist and Terror-Sponsoring status-quo.</p>
<p>This week they’re all toasting Obama, snickering and rubbing their hands. So <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grab your wallets, amigos.</span></a></p>
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		<title>NY Times Triples-Down as Communist Mouthpiece</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History repeats itself. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new-york-times.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243524" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new-york-times-450x320.jpg" alt="new-york-times" width="380" height="270" /></a>The past 10 days have seen <i>three</i> hysterical editorials from the New York Times <i>pleading</i> for a U.S. economic lifeline to the Castro brothers’ terror-sponsoring regime (i.e. to end the so-called embargo).</p>
<p>It’s the economy, stupid—Venezuela’s that is. Those plummeting oil prices (20% in the past few months) are playing havoc with the Cuban colony’s already-rotten economy.  Venezuelan subsidies to Cuba last year, mostly in the form of essentially free oil, were estimated to total $10 billion. That’s more than double what the Soviets used to send.</p>
<p>But Castro’s Venezuelan puppet Maduro is now on very shaky ground. The only thing keeping this pathetic satrap in power—besides the 30,000 or so Cuban military and security “advisors” essentially running Venezuela—are the bread and circuses that sitting on top of the world’s largest oil reserves allows the Venezuelan regime to put on for Venezuelans.</p>
<p>Now this oil-fueled largesse looks imperiled—and with it the subsidies to Venezuela’s colonial overlords in Havana. Hence the Castro brothers’ desperation for a rescue from U.S. tourists and taxpayers—and the SOS to their regime’s traditional agents-of-influence worldwide, among whom the New York Times features very prominently.</p>
<p>“Fidel Castro…has largely vanished from public view in Cuba,” reads the second NY Times editorial on Oct. 14. “But the 88-year-old former <i>president </i>[italics mine] has not altogether abandoned the business of telling Cubans what to think.”</p>
<p>Is the Times &#8212; at long last! &#8212; acknowledging a totalitarian streak in the longest-reigning Stalinist dictator of modern history? Sure sounds like it. Now please pay close attention as the editorial continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>On Tuesday [Oct. 14<sup>th</sup>], Mr. Castro dedicated a column to an editorial published in The [New York] Times on Sunday [Oct. 11] that called on the Obama administration to restore diplomatic ties with the Cuban government and end the <i>counterproductive </i>[italics mine]<i> </i>embargo the United States has imposed on the island for decades. His take was remarkable for one main reason…quoting nearly every paragraph in the [our] editorial…Hosts of Cuban state-run radio stations [also] read Mr. Castro’s column and discussed its content…</p></blockquote>
<p>In brief: so closely did the New York Times echo the sentiments of a Stalinist dictator that he gleefully ordered their article disseminated—almost word for word &#8211; throughout his regime’s KGB-founded and mentored media. It gets better:</p>
<blockquote><p>He [Fidel Castro] appeared to endorse the thrust of the editorial,” The second NY Times editorial boasts, “comparing it to an interview he gave in 1957 as a young rebel leader to a [New York] Times foreign correspondent at the time, Herbert Matthews…</p></blockquote>
<p>In April of 1959 &#8212; amidst an appalling bloodbath of Cubans by firing squad ordered by Fidel Castro but mostly administered by his ever-faithful Igor, <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html">Che Guevara</a> </span>&#8211; Castro made a special visit to the New York Times offices in New York. After a warm greeting from Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, a beaming Fidel Castro personally decorated a beaming Herbert Matthews with a specially-minted medal expressing his bloody regime’s highest honor.</p>
<p>“To our American friend Herbert Matthews with gratitude,” beamed Castro as the flashbulbs popped. “Without your help, and without the help of the New York Times, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Revolution in Cuba would never have been.”</span></a></p>
<p>“Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy and social justice,” Matthews had written on the front pages of (at the time) the world’s most prestigious newspaper in February 1957. “But it amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic, and therefore <i>anti</i>-communist.”</p>
<p>Herbert Matthews doubled-down a few months later: “This is <i>not</i> a Communist revolution in any sense of the term. Fidel Castro is not only <i>not</i> a Communist, he is decidedly <i>anti-</i>Communist” (Herbert Matthews, the <i>New York Times</i>, July 1959).</p>
<p>Reasonable people might ask: has any <i>tiny</i> little thing transpired in the intervening half-century that might cause the New York Times to regret their enabling of Fidel Castro?</p>
<p>But reasonable people will search in utter vain for any hint of such regret, especially in light of this week’s editorials, which – if anything &#8212; double-down on the New York Times&#8217; historical fondness for the Castro regime.</p>
<p>Through their unrivaled (at the time) public relations cachet and their heavy influence with their ideological cohorts and cronies in the CIA and U.S. State Department, the New York Times enabled into power a regime that:</p>
<p>*Jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror.</p>
<p>*Murdered more Cubans than Hitler murdered Germans during the Night of Long Knives.</p>
<p>* converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe into one that repulses Haitians.</p>
<p>* Wantonly brought the world within a whisker of nuclear war.</p>
<p>Over <i>fifty times</i> as many Cubans have died (and horribly) while attempting to flee Castro’s Cuba as Germans died trying to flee East Germany. And prior to Castroism Cuba welcomed more immigrants per-capita (primarily from Europe) than did the U.S.</p>
<p>And remember, the New York Times, like all anti-embargo propagandists (Chamber of Commerce, Hillary Clinton, Brookings Institute, Cato Institute, etc.), advocates against the so-called embargo by claiming Castro secretly favors it. The embargo &#8212; the intellectual eggheads wink and snicker at us knuckle-draggers &#8211; gives Castro a foil for his economic failures and an excuse to keep the clamps on. “Don’t you blockheads understand?”</p>
<p>We’re greatly impressed with your erudition and powers of ratiocination, think-tank eggheads. But first off, if Castro “<i>secretly</i> favors the embargo,” then why did every one of his <i>secret</i> agents campaign secretly and obsessively <i>against</i> the embargo while working as <i>secret</i> agents? Castro managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Belen Montes, known as &#8220;Castro’s Queen Jewel&#8221; in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.</p>
<p>Prior to her visit from the FBI and handcuffing, Ana Belen Montes worked tirelessly to influence U.S. foreign policy <i>against</i> the embargo. The same holds for more recently arrested, convicted and incarcerated Cuban spies Carlos and Elsa Alvarez and Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers. All of these worked tirelessly to influence U.S. policy <i>against</i> the &#8220;embargo&#8221;&#8211; while working as <i>secret</i> agents.</p>
<p>In brief, the “reasoning” against the so-called embargo by people who fancy themselves intellectuals calls for Rod Serling introducing a Twilight Zone episode:</p>
<blockquote><p>Imagine if you will &#8230; a place where every &#8220;prestigious&#8221; think-tank (from Brookings to CATO) and every &#8220;prestigious&#8221; publication (from the New York Times to The Atlantic) denounces the Cuba &#8220;embargo&#8221; as &#8220;Castro&#8217;s best-friend, a policy he secretly favors&#8221;&#8211; even when every one of Castro’s convicted secret agents campaigned secretly and obsessively <i>against </i>the embargo while working as secret agents. On top of that, the KGB-mentored media of Castro&#8217;s totalitarian regime makes it a point to reprint every &#8220;end-the-embargo&#8221; article ever printed in the world, especially those by the New York Times&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Imagine if you will&#8230;a place where the institutions that call the embargo &#8220;Castro&#8217;s best-friend&#8221; still manage to be known as <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=otj666e8e533cb3154646a6601ccfd09ef95c#bookmark=http://babalublog.com/2014/10/16/beam-me-up-scotty-new-york-times-editorial-think-tanks-and-the-cuba-embargo/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“<i>think</i>-tanks.”</span></a></p>
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		<title>The YAF Celebrates &#8216;No More Che Day&#8217; on Campuses Nationwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/che.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242623" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/che-267x350.png" alt="che" width="240" height="315" /></a>“From the first moment I heard about Che, Ernesto Guevara,” gushes Columbia University’s SDS (Student’s for a Democratic Society) leader in 1968 Mark Rudd, “he was my man, or, rather, I was his. Brilliant, young, idealistic, a daring commander of rebels, willing to risk his life to free the people of the world, I wanted to be like him. I was a member of the cult of Che.  Who wouldn’t fall for this rifle-toting poet … ?”</p>
<p>Columbia University College Republicans, for one. The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) for another. Indeed such is these organizations’ penchant for blowing raspberries and horse-laughs at the staggering imbecilities swallowed (and spouted) by gasping groupies like Mark Rudd that they’re a staging a <a href="http://www.yaf.org/eventdetails.aspx?id=12815">“No More Che Day”</a> at Mark Rudd’s own Columbia University on Oct. 9th.</p>
<p>Worse still (for such as Rudd and fellow Che groupies), this event features a speaker who &#8212; you might say &#8212; “wrote the book” on exposing the r<em>eal</em> Che Guevara and the staggering stupidity (or other mental malfunctions) that motivate those who idolize this <a href="http://www.yaf.org/eventdetails.aspx?id=12815">amazing sadist, coward and epic idiot.</a></p>
<p>For starters, most of Che’s “rifle-toting” was done in the face of utterly unarmed enemies. &#8220;When you saw the beaming look on Che&#8217;s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,&#8221; said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez to your humble servant here, &#8220;you saw there was something seriously, <em>seriously</em> wrong with Che Guevara.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara&#8217;s writings revealed a serious mental illness. &#8220;My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any <em>vencido</em> that falls in my hands!” This passage is from Ernesto Guevara&#8217;s famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie.</p>
<p>The Spanish word <em>vencido</em>, by the way, translates into &#8220;defeated&#8221; or &#8220;surrendered.&#8221; And indeed, &#8220;the &#8220;acrid odor of gunpowder and blood&#8221; very, very rarely reached Guevara&#8217;s nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from the close-range murders of defenseless men (and boys). Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che&#8217;s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen. &#8220;<em>Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo</em>!&#8221; &#8220;The defiant yells would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble,&#8221; wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares.</p>
<p>The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara&#8217;s life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.</p>
<p>During his Bolivian &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; campaign, Che split his forces whereupon they got hopelessly lost and bumbled around, half-starved, half-clothed and half-shod, without any contact with each other for 6 months before being wiped out. They didn&#8217;t even have WWII vintage walkie-talkies to communicate and seemed incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. They spent much of the time walking in circles and were usually within a mile of each other. During this blundering they often engaged in ferocious firefights <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html"><em>against each other</em></a><em>!</em></p>
<p>&#8220;You hate to laugh at anything associated with Che, who murdered so many defenseless men and boys,&#8221; says Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA officer who played a key role in tracking him down in Bolivia. &#8220;But when it comes to Che as &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; you simply can&#8217;t help but guffaw.&#8221;</p>
<p>Che&#8217;s genocidal fantasies included a continental reign of Stalinism. And to achieve this ideal he craved, &#8220;millions of atomic victims&#8221; &#8212; most of them Americans. &#8220;The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!&#8221; raved Ernesto Che Guevara in 1961. &#8220;Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination. We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies&#8217; very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we&#8217;ll destroy him! We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!&#8221;</p>
<p>This was Che&#8217;s prescription for America almost half a century before Osama bin Laden and ISIS appeared on our radar screens. Compared to Che Guevara, Iran’s Ahmadinejad sounds like the Dalai Lama.</p>
<p>So for many, the question remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status?</p>
<p>The answer is that this psychotic and thoroughly unimposing vagrant named Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch had the magnificent fortune of linking up with modern history&#8217;s top press agent, Fidel Castro, who &#8212; from the New York Times&#8217; Herbert Matthews in 1957, through CBS&#8217; Ed Murrow in 1959 to CBS&#8217; Dan Rather, to ABC&#8217;s Barbara Walters, to most recently, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg &#8212; always had American reporters anxiously scurrying to his every beck and call and eating out of his hand like trained pigeons.</p>
<p>Had Ernesto Guevara not linked up with Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico city that fateful summer of 1955 &#8212; had he not linked up with a Cuban exile named Nico Lopez in Guatemala the year before who later introduced him to Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico City &#8212; everything points to Ernesto continuing his life of a traveling hobo, panhandling, mooching off women, staying in flophouses and scribbling unreadable poetry.</p>
<p>Che&#8217;s image is particularly ubiquitous on college campuses. But in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR and advertising departments. His lessons and history are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of P.T. Barnum. One born every minute, Mr. Barnum? If only you&#8217;d lived to see the Che phenomenon. Actually, ten are born every second.</p>
<p>His pathetic whimpering while dropping his fully-loaded weapons as two Bolivian soldiers approached him on Oct. 8 1967 (&#8220;Don&#8217;t shoot! I&#8217;m Che! I&#8217;m worth more to you alive than dead!&#8221;) proves that this cowardly, murdering swine was unfit to carry his victims&#8217; slop buckets.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fidel-castro.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-241060" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fidel-castro.jpg" alt="fidel-castro" width="300" height="250" /></a>“Academia has been and remains a key target of foreign intelligence services, including the [Cuban intelligence service],” says an FBI report from Sept. 2<sup>nd</sup>.</p>
<p>“One recruitment method used by the <i>Cubans is to appeal to American leftists’ ideology.</i> “For instance, someone who is allied with communist or leftist ideology may assist the [Cuban intelligence service] because of his/her personal beliefs.”</p>
<p>Not that any of the above should come as earth-shaking news to anyone who:</p>
<p>A: Attended a typical college and suffered through typical Liberal Arts courses.</p>
<p>B. Knows anything at all about the history of Cuban spying in the U.S.</p>
<p>Let’s face it: FBI agents tasked with ferreting out Cuban spies in the U.S face a daunting task. Just think of how many Liberal Arts college professors match the potential Cuban-spy profile—ideology-wise that is, competence at sleuth-work is a different matter.)  Just how many Liberal Arts college professors actually eschew “leftist ideology?”</p>
<p>Indeed, of the most recently convicted Cuban spies&#8211;Ana Montes, Walter Kendall Meyers and Carlos and Elsa Alvarez, three were recruited by Castro’s agents from academia&#8211; John Hopkins, for Montes and Florida International University for the Alvarez couple.</p>
<p>Cuba’s Intelligence services “will actively exploit visitors to the island” continues the report. “Intelligence officers will come into contact with the academic travelers (from the U.S.) They will stay in the same accommodations and participate in the activities arranged for the travelers. This clearly provides an opportunity to identify targets….Castro’s intelligence aggressively targets U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions within the U.S. government that can provide access to information of use to the [Cuban intelligence service,”] continues the FBI report.</p>
<p>“A preferred target are ‘study abroad’ programs (in Cuba,)” adds  America’s top Cuban spycatcher  Chris Simmons, recently retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency, “as participating students (from the U.S.) are assessed as inherently <a href="http://cubaconfidential.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/fbi-cuban-intelligence-aggressively-recruiting-leftist-american-academics-as-spies-influence-agents/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sympathetic to the Cuban revolution.”</span></a></p>
<p>It’s not customary for U.S. administrations to increase the size of an enemy spy agency’s “preferred spy-recruitment target,” but we’re talking the Obama Administration here, amigos. To wit:  Academic and cultural exchanges along with various types of legalized “people-to-people travel” between the U.S. and terror-sponsoring Cuba now allow hundreds of thousands of people to visit Cuba annually from the U.S. —over half a million visited just last year.</p>
<p>By the way that‘s DOUBLE the number who visited Cuba from the U.S. in 1958, when Cuba was a “tourist playground” for Americans. Surely, you remember that from Godfather II?</p>
<p>Let’s stand back for a second and ponder this issue: When Cuba was a “U.S. tourist playground” 263,000 people visited Cuba from the U.S.</p>
<p>But now that Cuba suffers from a beastly “blockade” or “embargo” (as the media calls it) by the U.S. 599,426 people visited Cuba from the U.S. 102.396 of these, by the way, went under “educational and cultural exchanges” approved by the Obama State Department.</p>
<p>In brief, Obama has greatly simplified matters for Castro’s Intelligence. Used to be that for recruiting U.S. spies, Castro relied on Obama’s Chicago ‘neighbors, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.</p>
<p>You read right. You see during the late 60’s and early 70’s the terrorist offshoot from the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) known as The Weathermen and staffed most famously by Barack Obama’s future “neighbors” Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn served as the Cuban DGI’s <i>(Directorio General de Intelligencia)</i> top U.S. recruitment officers. They accomplished this recruitment primarily through their sponsorship of the then famous <i>Venceremos </i>Brigades.</p>
<p>During that  heady Age of Aquarius hundreds of starry-eyed college kids were volunteering to “help build Cuban Socialism” and “fight U.S. Imperialism,” mostly by joining these<i> Venceremos</i> Brigades (many via the Weathermen,) making their way to Cuba and joyfully cutting Cuban sugar cane.</p>
<p>&#8220;The ultimate objective of the DGI’s participation in the setting up of the <i>Venceremos</i> Brigades,” says an FBI report declassified in 1976 “was the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government, which would provide the Cuban <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Government with access to political, economic and military intelligence</span></a></p>
<p>Sure sounds like what the very recently de-classified FBI report claims about <i>current </i>recruitment objectives by Cuba’s intelligence, except now the Cubans have tens of thousands more spy candidates to choose from!</p>
<p>In brief: nowadays instead of relying on terrorist groups as an employment agency to screen their spy recruits, the Castro regime&#8211;thanks to &#8220;People-to-People&#8221; &#8220;academic exchanges, etc.&#8211; relies on the massive apparatus of academic “Cuban Studies Programs” and their U.S. government facilitators!</p>
<p>“So what?” some readers might rebut. “So what’s the big deal? So what kind of threat does tiny, impoverished Cuba present to the U.S.?”</p>
<p>&#8220;Cuba is intelligence trafficker to the world,&#8221; reveals U.S. spycatcher Christopher Simmons. Among many others, the U.S. military secrets stolen by Castro’s spies have been sold to former regimes in Iraq, Panama and Grenada, alerting these dictatorships to U.S. military plans <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">against them and costing untold American lives.</span></a></p>
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		<title>A Place Where Every Week Is &#8216;Shark Week&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And why thousands of people have risked their lives to flee it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239457" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gh1-450x299.jpg" alt="gh" width="274" height="182" /></a>The Discovery Channel just ran another of its wildly popular “Shark Weeks” without mentioning what is probably the shark attack capital of the Western hemisphere—the Florida straits.</p>
<p>“Getting attacked by a shark just might be the scariest event in nature!” gasped a Discovery Channel narrator during Shark Week. “Australia recorded 56 fatal shark attacks between 1956 and 2008!”he gasped again<em>. </em>“Find out what it&#8217;s like from people who&#8217;ve lived to tell the tale!”</p>
<p>So the Discovery Channel goes back over half a century and to a distant continent to interview the victims and dramatize the attacks. But why the distant timeline and setting, ask many people in south Florida?</p>
<p>“The Florida Straits probably record 56 fatal shark attacks <em>every few years</em>,” says Matt Lawrence, who spent years rescuing desperate Cuban rafters. &#8220;Probably every <em>month</em> during the early &#8217;90s,” adds Bay of Pigs vet Arturo Cobo who ran the rafter rescue center in Key West and for years heard the sobbing, gut-gripping details of these attacks almost daily.</p>
<p>“Something was moving in this raft,” recalls an airborne rescuer.</p>
<blockquote><p>So I went in lower. The water all around the raft was turning red…the cloud spreading. Then I saw the shark—about the same length as the raft. The rafter was in fact a Cuban woman in her early twenties. Upon her rescue we found she had two bullet wounds in her legs from Castro’s frontier police. All others in the raft, including two infants had died, as did the shark, from being repeatedly stabbed by the pointed end of a broken oar by Maria. The Shark had bitten the oar in half as Maria pounded him&#8230;I started flying rescue missions full-time after that.</p></blockquote>
<p>“The boys’ father, delirious from thirst and exposure, finally jumped in the water,” recalls another rescuer.</p>
<blockquote><p>So the sons threw him a rope tied to the raft and he clutched it. They turned away for a second, slightly relieved—but only to spot a huge shark approaching, then another. Soon an entire school surrounded the raft and they ripped into their father…The water turned red as their father was eaten alive….. I can tell you from decades of and heart-breaking work from our center here in Key West that in the <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-longest-romance-the-mainstream-media-and-fidel-castro/">Florida straits every week is shark week.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Were the “root cause” of this drama and horror more politically-correct can you imagine its popularity in movies? Docudramas? Reality TV? But as usual, Castro also escapes censure for this form of torture and mass-murder.</p>
<p>The waters surrounding Cuba are famed for their hordes of sharks. Most people entering them for extended periods (all those showboat swimmers and surfers) insist on a defense against them. Yet a quarter to a half million Cubans have crossed these waters with little between them and the sharks than thin rubber or canvas &#8212; and knowing the odds were close to 50-50 that their craft would overturn or crumble.</p>
<p>Not that (given the media silence) most of you would have any reason to know this, but right off the <em>southern</em> Florida coast an estimated  70,000-80,000 people have perished since 1961 on the high seas, a large but unknown number of these at the hands (jaws, actually) of sharks. To this day most airborne rescuers report seeing sharks in the vicinity of most Cuban rafters. Many have observed attacks. Most survivors mention sharks and shark attacks often during their terrible voyage.</p>
<p>So here’s one of America’s most populous states and one bounded by beaches crammed with tourists. You’d really think this setting right off the U.S. coast could provide the Discovery Channel with material much more dramatic and relevant (titillating) for its U.S. audience. But where’s the Discovery Channel on this?</p>
<p>Perhaps the Discovery Channel’s budgets remain unscathed by Obama-nomics and the expense of flying production crews to Australia, South Africa, etc. rather than to Miami seems trivial?</p>
<p>On the other hand, upon viewing a Shark Week segment set in Florida, some viewers might ask: “But why is it that for over half a century so many thousands of people have risked the &#8216;scariest event in nature&#8217; in the Florida straits?”</p>
<p>Ah! And there’s the rub.</p>
<p>The Discovery Channel, you see, is a major business partner of the Castro regime. So such a show would probably not sit well with their communist client. When it comes to the U.S. media and U.S. celebrities, after all, this communist client is much more accustomed to seeing such items as Newsweek hailing Cuba as among the “best countries in the world to live,” to hearing Jack Nicholson hail Castro’s Stalinist fiefdom as “a paradise” and to hear Bonnie Raitt commemorate Cuba in song as a “Happy Little Island!”</p>
<p>Never mind that <em>ten to twenty times</em> as many people have died attempting to flee Castro’s Cuba as died trying to flee East Germany, who—best we can tell &#8212; won no awards from Newsweek for its “quality of life.” What makes these stats even worse is that prior to Castroism Cuba took in immigrants at a higher rate than did the U.S. And mostly from Europe. Indeed more Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S.</p>
<p>The Discovery Channel’s “Buena Vista Fishing Videos” dramatizes their business partnership with Castro. This show features sport-fishing videos filmed in full partnership with the Stalinist regime’s ministry of tourism. These attract a large number of well-heeled sport fishermen from around the world to Cuba’s “unspoiled” and “fish-filled” coastal waters.</p>
<p>By the simple diktat of banning boat ownership under penalty of torture chamber and/or firing-squad for everyone except top-regime officials many other nations could boast fishing grounds every bit as “unspoiled” as those surrounding the Castro brothers’ fiefdom.</p>
<p>He&#8217;d be loath to admit it, being a Che-T-shirt-wearer and all, but Eric Burdon of the Animals wrote a song that resounds with many Cubans: <em>&#8220;We gotta get outta this place &#8212; if it&#8217;s the last thing we ever do!&#8221; </em></p>
<p>The last thing, indeed, for an estimated one-in-three of the desperate Cuban escapes during the &#8217;60s, &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. This is according to a study by the late Cuban-American scholar Dr. Armando Lago. A consistently hot item on Cuba&#8217;s black market is used motor oil: poor man&#8217;s shark-repellent, they call it. Perhaps for a few minutes. I suppose we all cling to false hopes when desperate. And people get no more desperate than <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-longest-romance-the-mainstream-media-and-fidel-castro/">when striving to flee the handiwork of Newsweek’s “quality-of-life” winner.</a></p>
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<p>“I think that a new, repugnant form of fascism is emerging with notable strength…The Nazi genocide of Jews outraged all the earth’s peoples. Why does this (Israeli) government believe that the world will be insensitive to the macabre genocide which today is being perpetuated against the Palestinian people?” <a href="http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/cuba-i/5agosto-fidelgaza.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">(Fidel Castro, August, 5, 2014)</span></a></p>
<p>“Who <i>cares</i>, what that senile ZOMBIE Castro says!” strikes me as a reasonable retort from many readers.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately,” I’m forced to answer. “Many otherwise reasonable care <i>very much</i> what Fidel Castro says.” Take Israeli Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu:</p>
<p>“The remarks attributed to Castro demonstrate his deep understanding of the history of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.” <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/A-late-blooming-romance-between-Castro-and-Israel"><span style="color: #0433ff;">(Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, Sept. 24, 2010.)</span></a></p>
<p>Take former Israeli President Shimon Peres: “I thank you (Fidel Castro) from the bottom of my heart. I must confess that your remarks were, in my opinion, unexpected and rife with unique intellectual depth. Your words presented a surprising bridge between a harsh reality and a new horizon. You tried to sail to bigger seas, to show that a small geographical size doesn’t have to reflect human smallness.” (Israeli President Shimon Peres, Sept. 24, 2010.)</p>
<p>At the time Fidel Castro had granted The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg an exclusive interview and the smitten Israeli leaders were reacting to the following remarks by the Stalinist dictator:</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews….I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything….The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust….Yes, without a doubt (Israel has a right to exist as modern state.)&#8221;</p>
<p>Cuba-watchers rolled their eyes and groaned at that latest of Castro’s frequent scams, but the media (naturally) ate it up, savoring every syllable. Astoundingly so did normally shrewd Israeli leaders. Wishful thinking often fogs the brain. And who can blame friendless Israel for wishing she had a new friend –and and one carrying enormous cachet among her traditional enemies?</p>
<p>So why did Castro—who sent troops to fight try an “erase” Israel during the Yom Kippur war, and who co-sponsored the infamous 1975 UN resolution branding “Zionism as Racism”&#8211; suddenly go Likudnik?</p>
<p>&#8220;For now we use a lot of sleight of hand and smiles with everybody. There will be plenty of time later to crush all the cockroaches together.&#8221; This admonition from Fidel Castro to a revolutionary colleague in 1954 gives a clue to his diplomacy. Cuba-watchers also know that Castro plumbs the workings of the U.S. legislature better than most home-grown lobbyists and well knows the main power brokers. Indeed Cuban intelligence defectors report that promptly upon publication in 1979, David Halberstam&#8217;s book <i>&#8220;The Powers That Be,&#8221; </i>detailing the inner workings and identities of Washington D.C’s power brokers, became Castro’s favorite book.</p>
<p>In September 2010 it was time to use that sleight-of-hand on Israel-backers. Jeffrey Goldberg’s visit with Castro, you see, <i>just happened</i> to coincide with a pending vote by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations (HCFR) on further opening U.S. travel to Cuba. Goldberg’s visit to Cuba, <i>just happened</i> to be arranged by The Council on Foreign Relations Julia Sweig, identified as a “Cuban agent of influence” by America’s top Cuban spycatcher Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons, recently retired <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">from the Defense Intelligence Agency.</span></a></p>
<p>Cuba’s tourist industry is majority-owned by Castro’s military and secret police. As used to be common knowledge during the Cold War, secret police and military (the only outfits with guns in such nations) maintain Communist regimes in power.</p>
<p>So the HCFR vote could open the floodgates of American tourist dollars to the Stalinist regime’s most zealous (and heavily armed) guardians&#8211;and at a time when the financial lifeline to Cuba from Hugo Chavez’ looked shaky. Most importantly, steadfast Israel-backer Howard Berman chaired this House Committee at the time, and steadfast Israel-backer and committee member Senator Gary Ackerman seemed to hold the vital deciding vote. Do you see where I’m going with this, amigos?</p>
<p>Alas, even with Rep. Ackerman taking Castro’s bait, at the last minute Chairman Rep. Berman took a rough count and recognized that the bill would not squeak by. So he postponed it. Short weeks later Castro’s roaming ambassador, Aleida Guevara (Che’s daughter), was in Lebanon posing next to Hezbollah missiles <a href="http://babalublog.com/2010/10/che-guevaras-daughter-chumming-it-up-with-hezbollah/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">aimed at Israel.</span></a></p>
<p>The Cuban-born (and steadfast Israel-backer) Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was among those bemused with Netanyahu and Peres at the time. “Look, this guy has been an enemy of Israel,” wrote Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen to Netanyahu. “Just because he said something that a normal person would say — after 50 years of anti-Israel incitement, its one phrase from an old guy who doesn’t even know where he’s standing.”</p>
<p>“When countries such as Cuba, Venezuela and the like, who do not know the concept of human rights, point an accusing finger towards us, it is a sign that we are doing the right things.&#8221; Here Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman was reacting to Cuba sponsorship of the United Nations Human Rights Commission resolution to investigate Israeli “War Crimes,” upon last month’s launch of Operation Protective Edge.</p>
<p>Well that’s more like it, Israeli leaders. Hopefully you learned your lesson regarding Fidel Castro’s public pronouncements. This lesson came at catastrophic cost to U.S. policymakers and millions of Cuba over half a century ago. Among the Castro pronouncements these now older and <i>much</i> wiser people took at face value:</p>
<p>&#8220;You can be sure we have no animosity toward the United States and the American people….we are fighting for a democratic Cuba and an end to the dictatorship.” (New York Times Feb. 24, 1957.)</p>
<p>“We are not communists. And communists will never have influence in my country… Political power does interest me in the least. I will never assume such power.<i>” </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">(Fidel Castro, April 1959.)</span></a></p>
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		<title>Jesse Ventura Swoons Over Fidel Castro and Che Guevara</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140729-jesse-ventura-1427_45df380f4821c3fbf603ff8619fbe4a4.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237729" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140729-jesse-ventura-1427_45df380f4821c3fbf603ff8619fbe4a4-450x300.jpg" alt="140729-jesse-ventura-1427_45df380f4821c3fbf603ff8619fbe4a4" width="261" height="174" /></a>Maybe it’s just a coincidence that somebody like Jesse Ventura is also a major fan of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara? (Or <i>claims</i> to be for the publicity value among the “hip”?)</p>
<p>Recalling his visit to Cuba and meeting with Fidel Castro in 2002 Ventura grew misty-eyed: “Fidel Castro looked into my eyes and told me I was a man of great courage…Maybe he (Castro) saw a little of him in me.”</p>
<p>Recall the Cowardly Lion’s reaction when the Wizard grants him <i>“the NERVE</i>.” Well, Jesse Ventura’s moronic gloating outdoes even the lion’s <i>(“Shucks, folks, I’m speechless..ha-ha…Ain’t it the truth! Ain’t it the truth!”</i>)</p>
<p>And this imbecile and buffoon (or is it master fraud and expert showman?) was elected governor of a populous and prosperous state, and honored by Harvard University with the title of  “Visiting Fellow,” to say nothing of his career as media host  and author.</p>
<p>“And I’ll tell you another thing that shows me a little bit more about Castro” also revealed Ventura in an interview. “The main downtown building in Havana has this huge flat wall and it has got a huge portrait on it. It’s not Castro. It’s Che Guevara. The biggest photograph in downtown Havana was a mural on a wall of Che. Now if Castro was such an egomaniac and all this, wouldn’t he put himself up there instead of Che?”</p>
<p>For a man with Ventura’s (mostly self-) vaunted “street smarts,” Fidel Castro’s blandishments of (the conveniently dead) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1595230270/ref=s9_asin_image_1-1966_p/103-5425239-0953451?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-1&amp;pf_rd_r=1QKFYRWWEX7QKY38DXMK&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=278240701&amp;pf_rd_i=507846"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Che Guevara</span></a> should be a cinch to plumb. Didn’t Don Barzini send the biggest and fanciest flowers to Don Corleone’s funeral?</p>
<p>The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported how on his Cuba visit Ventura spoke at the University of Havana where he “exhorted students to dream big and work hard to achieve success!” Here one blinks, looks again—and gapes. You long to believe otherwise, you grope for an extenuation, you hope you misread—but it’s inescapable: A man elected as governor of a populous and prosperous U.S. State (and a “Harvard Visiting Fellow”) cannot distinguish between the subjects of a Stalinist police state and the attendees of an AmWay convention.</p>
<p>Ask anyone familiar with Communism. To achieve “success” in such as Castro’s Stalinist fiefdom, you join the Communist Party, you pucker up and stoop down behind Fidel and his toadies and smooch away. (Either that or jump on a raft.)</p>
<p>So come to think of it, Jesse Ventura indeed had much to teach those Havana U. students. On his Cuba visit he performed brilliantly.</p>
<p>Years later when, during an interview, The Daily Caller’s Jaime Weinstein suggested to Ventura that Castro runs a very inhumane dictatorship, a “shocked” (or expertly performing?) Ventura gasped:  “They have the highest health care of any Latin American country! … What has he (Fidel Castro) done that’s inhumane?”</p>
<p>For the benefit of the esteemed academics who granted Ventura’s “Visiting Fellowship” at  Harvard<i> </i>University&#8217;s  John F. Kennedy School of Government  here’s a few fully- documented  items that might address their esteemed “Visiting Fellow’s” question:</p>
<p>Fidel Castro’s regime jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror, murdered more Cubans in its first three years in power than Hitler’s murdered Germans during its first six and came closest of anyone in history to starting a worldwide Nuclear war. In the above process Fidel Castro and Che Guevara converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe and a huge influx of immigrants into one that repels Haitians and boasts the highest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suicide rate in the Western Hemisphere.</span></a></p>
<p>&#8220;What has Cuba ever done to us?!” the again “shocked” (or masterfully miming?) “Harvard Visiting Fellow” gasped recently on his show On the Grid. “We&#8217;ve been practicing terrorism against them!”</p>
<p>“War against the United States is my true destiny,” Fidel Castro had confided in a letter to a friend in 1958. “When this war’s over I’ll start that much bigger war.”</p>
<p>“Of course I knew the missiles were nuclear- armed,” responded Fidel Castro to Robert McNamara during a meeting in 1992. “That’s precisely <i>why</i> I urged Khrushchev <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to launch them!”</span></a></p>
<p>But for the purposes of this discussion let’s overlook the above trivialities, as they’re obviously regarded by Harvard’s esteemed academics. Instead let’s focus on the fact that Jesse Ventura claims some sort of “fellowship” with American servicemen, especially Viet-Nam veterans. (Granted, this fellowship is–to put it mildly—not fully reciprocated.)</p>
<p>So again, for the benefit of the esteemed academics who granted Ventura’s “Visiting Fellowship” at Harvard<i> </i>University&#8217;s John F. Kennedy School of Government, we’ll  mention a few items to highlight their “Visiting Fellow’s” ignorance (or expert burlesque?) To wit:</p>
<p>In 1967 Fidel Castro sent several of his regime&#8217;s most promising sadists to North Vietnamese prison camps to instruct the Vietnamese reds in finer points of their profession. Testimony during Congressional hearings titled, &#8220;The Cuban Torture Program; Torture of American Prisoners by Cuban Agents&#8221; held on November 1999 provide some of the harrowing details.</p>
<p>The communists titled their torture program &#8220;the Cuba Project,&#8221; and it took place during 67-68 primarily at the Cu Loc POW camp (also known as &#8220;The Zoo&#8221;) on the southwestern edge of Hanoi. In brief, this &#8220;Cuba Project&#8221; was a Joseph Mengelese experiment run by Castroite Cubans to determine how much physical and psychological agony a human can endure before cracking.</p>
<p>The North Vietnamese—please note!&#8211;never, <i>ever</i> asked the Castroites for advice on combat. They knew better. Unlike director Steven Soderbergh, they saw through the whole &#8220;Che as Guerrilla&#8221; hoopla for what it was and is: a Castroite hoax to camouflage the Inspector Clousseau-like bumblings of an incurable military idiot&#8211;and more specifically, Castro&#8217;s own hand in the idiot&#8217;s offing.</p>
<p>No, the North Vietnamese sought Castroite tutelage only on torture of the defenseless, well aware of the Castroites expertise in this matter.</p>
<p>For their experiment the Castroites chose twenty American POWs. One died: Lieutenant Colonel Earl Cobeil, an Air Force F-105 pilot. His death came slowly, in agonizing stages, under torture. Upon learning his Castroite Cuban affiliation, the American POWs nicknamed Cobeil&#8217;s Cuban torturer, &#8220;Fidel.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The difference between the Vietnamese and &#8220;Fidel&#8217; was that once the Vietnamese got what they wanted they let up, at least for a while,” testified fellow POW Captain Ray Vohden USN. “Not so with the Cubans. Earl Cobeil had resisted &#8216;Fidel&#8217; to the maximum. I heard the thud of the belt falling on Cobeil&#8217;s body again and again, as Fidel screamed &#8220;you son of a beech! I will show you! Kneel down!&#8211;KNEEL DOWN!” The Cubans unmercifully beat a mentally defenseless, sick American naval pilot to death.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Earl Cobeil was a complete physical disaster when we saw him,&#8221; testified another fellow POW, Col. Jack Bomar. &#8220;He had been tortured for days and days and days. His hands were almost severed from the manacles. He had bamboo in his shins. All kinds of welts up and down all over; his face was bloody. Then &#8216;Fidel&#8217; began to beat him with a fan belt.”</p>
<p>According to the book <i>Honor Bound</i> the tortures of U.S. POWs by Castro’s agents were <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/fidel.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“the worst sieges of torture any American withstood in Hanoi.”</span></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pp.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237078" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pp-450x253.jpg" alt="pp" width="301" height="169" /></a>Russian president Vladimir “Teflon” Putin is on a roll—or so we’re led to believe by the media. The Russian president combines the slick machismo of James Bond, the <em>cojones</em> of George Patton and the craftiness of Cardinal Richelieu.</p>
<p>Actually, in his dealings with Cuba, Putin looks more like Barney Fife. We’re not accustomed to seeing Mr Macho-Cool Vladimir Putin made an international jackass. But many Cuba-watchers snickered as the hapless Russian President met with the Castro brothers on July 11th and “wrote off” their $32 billion debt to the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>“That old thing? I never liked it anyway,” Cuba-watchers easily imagine Putin hissing through gritted teeth. &#8220;We will provide support to our Cuban friends to overcome the illegal blockade of Cuba,&#8221; is what Putin actually hissed for the record.</p>
<p>Vladimir Putin rose to the rank of Lieut. Colonel in an organization that tortured and murdered at roughly TWICE the rate of the Nazi SS. So his offense at the “illegal” U.S. embargo of a KGB-founded, terror-sponsoring regime should provoke only chortling and snorting. Instead it’s probably causing a fit of the vapors at the State Dept. and in faculty lounges nationwide.</p>
<p>Not that Putin left Cuba completely empty-handed. Instead the Russians reclaimed the Evil Empire’s largest foreign spying base, located in Lourdes just south of Havana. The Soviets built this complex&#8211; capable of electronic spying on everything from the U.S. Military’s Central and Southern command to NASA facilities&#8211; in 1967 and manned it until 2001. That year financial problems and pressure from the U.S. forced the Russians to close and abandon it. Interestingly it was (then) Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/07/russia-set-to-reopen-military.html">who felt compelled to lock it up and scurry out.</a></p>
<p>This re-colonization by the Russians of a spy base on our very borders is obviously important, but surely a true Russian Richelieu could have reclaimed the base for less than $32 billion, especially with an Obama in the White House.</p>
<p>Putin’s visit to the colonial outpost his “old” outfit (the KGB) helped convert from a vibrant capitalist nation swamped with European immigrants into a vast sewer, slum and prison that repels even impoverished Haitians disgusted most Cuban dissidents. The loathing of most Cubans (including many communists) for <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html">Che Guevara</a> owed much to Guevara&#8217;s groupie-like devotion to the Soviets who infested Cuba and roundly repelled almost all Cubans.</p>
<p>Putin’s fleecing by the Castro brothers provides more proof (if we actually needed any) that rarely in modern history has any item of U.S. foreign policy triumphed as patently (or hilariously) as the so-called U.S. embargo of Castro’s Stalinist kleptocracy. Here’s a glittering gem amidst the rubble of so much recent U.S. foreign policy.</p>
<p>Actually the Castros stuck it to Russia years ago, claiming they owed only an outfit named The Soviet Union, which no longer existed&#8211;so neither did this outfit’s invoices. Putin, faced with an offer he couldn’t refuse, simply ratified the rooking. The Castros stuck it to Mexico just last year, when its state development Bank Bancomex wrote off almost $500 million Cuba owed them from 15 years back. The Castros stuck it to Europe back in 1986, defaulting on most of their debt to the Paris Club. Fifteen years later the Castros stuck it to French taxpayers again for $175 million.</p>
<p>In 2011 the Castros stuck it even to their old “friends” Nelson Mandela’s South Africa. “The Cuban regime has a long track record of failing to pay back our loans,” lamented South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Trade &amp; Industry as he <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">wrote off almost 2 billion Rand in Cuban debt.</a></p>
<p>In sharp contrast, thanks to the so-called U.S. embargo of Cuba, the U.S. taxpayer remains unfleeced (at least at the hands of the Castros,) even after almost $4 billion in trade over the past dozen years with Cuba, the world’s most notorious deadbeat. “Wanna trade?” says the current version of the U.S. embargo. “No <em>problemo, </em>Mr Castro<em>.</em> Cash up front, buddy. The American taxpayer will NOT extend you credit. <em>Comprende</em>?</p>
<p>Enacted by the Bush team in 2001 this cash-up-front policy has kept the U.S. taxpayer snickering on the sidelines, much as we snickered at Oliver Douglas dealings with Mr Haney or Steven Spielberg and Larry King’s with Bernie Madoff.</p>
<p>“The problem with Socialism,” famously quipped Margaret Thatcher, “is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” True enough. But when the communist Castros run out of one sugar-daddy’s money, there’s always another suitor waiting in line. From the Soviets to the Europeans to the Mexicans to the Venezuelans, etc. the Castro brothers—unlike, say, Bernie Madoff—possess a singular talent for keeping their scam running longer than the Energizer Bunny. One born every minute, Mr P.T. Barnum? Ask the Castro brothers. They’ll tell you that ten are born every second.</p>
<p>Alas, an extremely well-funded campaign to include us among P.T Barnum’s cherished customers (i.e. lift the Cuba embargo) is building steam in Washington. Fascinatingly, “libertarians”&#8211; those self-described defenders of the U.S. taxpayer, those self-described champions of American sovereignty and pocket books against snooty, sneaky and predatory supranational cabals and elites—these very libertarians now serve as an echo-chamber for David Rockefeller’s Council on Foreign Relations and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, along with The Trilateral Commission , the Davos Groups, the United Nations, The Arca Foundation, former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, The Ford Foundation, a KGB Lieut Colonel, The Brookings Institute, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Piece (founded by Soviet spy Alger Hiss.)</p>
<p>Today’s “libertarians” march arm in arm chanting the anti-Cuba embargo mantra in perfect rhyme and cadence with every socialist elitist and every secretive supranational outfit mentioned above. Bedfellows don’t get much stranger. Let’s stand back and have a look:</p>
<p>All of the above clamor for an Imperial Democratic President to further circumvent the U.S. Congress and nullify the work of legendary conservative Republican legislators Dan Burton of Indiana and Jesse Helms of North Carolina.</p>
<p>Another name for the Cuba embargo in its current form, after all, is the Helms-Burton act of 1996, sponsored by these Red-State Republicans and constitutionally voted upon and passed by U.S. legislative branch.</p>
<p>But today’s “libertarian constitutionalists” have signed on to one of David Rockefeller’s <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/03/06/mr-chavez-you-were-no-fidel-castro/david-rockefeller-and-fidel-castro-shaking-hands/">longest-running and most cherished labors of love. </a> All the above clamor for a brazenly imperial President and disciple of Saul Alinsky to further trash the congressional work of Jesse Helms and Dan Burton (also a Tea Party stalwart until his recent retirement.) This trashing would enable U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the Communist terror-sponsoring regime that stole $7 billion from U.S. stockholders at Soviet gunpoint and came within a hair of nuking us. This nuking was barely foiled at the last second by the aghast Butcher of Budapest:</p>
<p>“What?!” Khrushchev gasped on Oct. 28th 1962, as recalled by his son Sergei. “Is he (Fidel Castro) proposing that we launch missiles from Cuba?&#8230;.But that is insane!&#8230;<em>Remove them</em> (our missiles) <em>as soon as possible!</em> Before it’s too late. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Before something terrible happens!”</a></p>
<p>Oh, I know…I know, Camelot’s court scribes concocted a different version of why the Russian missiles left Cuba. And naturally this version went instantly viral in the MSM, Academia and Hollywood.</p>
<p>At any rate, too bad Rod Serling isn’t around. This freak- show of anti-“embargo” lobbying would make a great episode for The Twilight Zone.</p>
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		<title>A Border Massacre of Children the Media Ignored</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Cuban-Immigrant-Boat-620x465.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236355" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Cuban-Immigrant-Boat-620x465-450x337.jpg" alt="Cuban-Immigrant-Boat-620x465" width="291" height="218" /></a>No ethnic group in the U.S. matches Cuban-Americans in their <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2012/10/breakdown-of-cuban-american-voter.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">rejection of the Democratic Party.</span></a> This might explain why most of you, amigos, have probably never heard of this atrocity against “Hispanics” attempting to enter the U.S. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Communist massacre.</p>
<p>You know it’s bad (or good, depending on your viewpoint) when a mainstream media luminary himself admits to mainstream media “negligence.” To wit:</p>
<p>“In the summer of 1994, something terrible happened out there,” ABC’s Ted Koppel was reporting from Havana in 1998 as he pointed towards the Florida straits. “It was an incident that went all but unnoticed in the US media. The Cuban-American community protested but they protest a lot and as I say, <i>we in the mainstream media all but ignored it. </i>Now we welcome Cuban-American author Humberto Fontova for more details.”</p>
<p>“Thanks Ted! I’ll take it from here.” (Actually I’m making up the part about appearing on ABC. Actually <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/04/08/beyonce-jay-z-criticized-for-celebrating-in-this-communist-country"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Fox News is among the few who will tolerate me.</span></a> But thanks to Ted anyway for notifying the world of this Castroite atrocity, even if four years later.)</p>
<p>In the predawn darkness of July 13, 1994, 72 desperate Cubans &#8212; old and young, male and female &#8212; sneaked aboard a decrepit but seaworthy tugboat in Havana harbor and set off for the U.S. and the prospect of freedom.</p>
<p>Let Jimmy Carter gush that “Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education.” Let Jack Nicholson label their captive homeland &#8220;a paradise.&#8221; Let Bonnie Raitt rasp out her ditty calling it a &#8220;Happy Little Island.&#8221; Let Ted Turner hail their slavemaster as a &#8220;Helluva guy.&#8221; Let Michael Moore hail the glories of Cuba’s Healthcare in <i>Sicko.</i> Let Barbara Walters add gravitas while soft-soaping Castro during an &#8220;interview&#8221;: &#8220;You have brought great health to your country.&#8221;</p>
<p>The people boarding that tug knew better. And for a simple reason: the cruel hand of fate had slated them to live under Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s handiwork.</p>
<p>The lumbering craft cleared the harbor and five foot waves started buffeting the tug. The men sprung to action as the impromptu crew while mothers, sisters and aunts hushed the terrified children, some as young as one. Turning back was out of the question.</p>
<p>A few miles into the turbulent sea, 30-year-old Maria Garcia felt someone tugging her sleeve. She looked down and it was her 10-year-old son, Juan. &#8220;Mami, look!&#8221; and he pointed behind them toward shore. &#8220;What&#8217;s those lights?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Looks like a boat following us, son,&#8221; she stuttered while stroking his hair. &#8220;Calm down, <i>mi hijo </i>(my son). Try to sleep. When you wake up, we&#8217;ll be with our cousins in a free country. Don&#8217;t worry.&#8221; In fact, Maria suspected the lights belonged to Castro patrol boats coming out to intercept them.</p>
<p>In seconds the patrol boats were alongside the tug and &#8211; WHACK!! &#8211; with its steel prow, the closest patrol boat rammed the back of the tug. People were knocked around the deck like bowling pins. But it looked like an accident, right? Rough seas and all. Could happen to anyone, right?</p>
<p>Hey, WATCH IT!&#8221; a man yelled as he rubbed the lump on his forehead. &#8220;We have women and children aboard!&#8221; Women held up their squalling children to get the point across. If they&#8217;d only known.</p>
<p>This gave the gallant Castroites nice targets for their water cannon. WHOOSH! The water cannon was zeroed and the trigger yanked. The water blast shot into the tug, swept the deck and mowed the escapees down, slamming some against bulkheads, blowing others off the deck into the five-foot waves.</p>
<p>&#8220;<i>MI HIJO! MI HIJO</i>!&#8221; Maria screamed as the water jet slammed into her, ripping half the clothes off her body and ripping Juan&#8217;s arm from her grasp. &#8220;JUANITO! JUANITO!&#8221; She fumbled frantically around her, still blinded by the water blast. Juan had gone spinning across the deck and now clung desperately to the tug&#8217;s railing 10 feet behind Maria as huge waves lapped his legs.</p>
<p>WHACK! Another of the steel patrol boats turned sharply and rammed the tug from the other side. Then &#8211; CRACK! another from the front! WHACK! The one from behind slammed them again. The tug was surrounded. It was obvious now: The ramming was NO accident. And in Cuba you don&#8217;t do something like this without strict orders from WAY above.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have women and children aboard!&#8221; The men yelled. &#8220;We&#8217;ll turn around! OK?!&#8221;</p>
<p>WHACK! the Castroites answered the plea by ramming them again. And this time the blow from the steel prow was followed by a sharp snapping sound from the wooden tug. In seconds the tug started coming apart and sinking. Muffled yells and cries came from below. Turns out the women and children who had scrambled into the hold for safety after the first whack had in fact scrambled into a watery tomb.</p>
<p>With the boat coming apart and the water rushing in around them, some got death grips on their children and managed to scramble or swim out. But not all. The roar from the water cannons and the din from the boat engines muffled most of the screams, but all around people were screaming, coughing, gagging and sinking.</p>
<p>Fortunately, a Greek freighter bound for Havana had happened upon the scene of slaughter and sped to the rescue. NOW one of the Castro boats threw out some life preservers on ropes and started hauling people in, pretending they&#8217;d been doing it all along.</p>
<p>Maria Garcia lost her son, Juanito, her husband, brother, sister, two uncles and three cousins in the maritime massacre. <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/07/13/we-will-never-forget-the-20th-anniverssary-of-the-castro-regimes-13-de-marzo-tugboat-massacre/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">In all, 37 people drowned, 11 of them children.</span></a> Carlos Anaya was 3 when he drowned, Yisel Alvarez 4. Helen Martinez was 6 months old.</p>
<p>And all this death and horror to flee from a nation that experienced <i>net immigration</i> throughout the 20th Century, where boats and planes <i>brought in </i>many more people than they took out &#8211; except on vacation. (Despite what you saw in The Godfather, actually, in 1953<i>, more Cubans vacationed in the U.S.</i> than Americans in Cuba. And they all happily returned home, as befit a nation with a bigger middle class than most of Europe.)</p>
<p>Thirty one people were finally plucked from the seas and hauled back to Cuba where all were jailed or put under house arrest. They hadn&#8217;t been through enough, you see. But a few later escaped Cuba on rafts and reached Miami. Hence we have Maria Garcia&#8217;s gut-wrenching testimony presented to the UN, the OAS and Amnesty International, who all filed &#8220;complaints,&#8221; reports, &#8220;protests.”(with the customary results.)</p>
<p>This was obviously a rogue operation by crazed deviants, you say. No government could <i>possibly </i>condone, much less directly order such a thing! Right?</p>
<p>Wrong. <i>Nothing</i> is random in Stalinist Cuba. One of the gallant water-cannon gunners was even decorated (personally) by Castro. Perhaps for expert marksmanship. A three-year old child presents a pretty small target. A six-month old baby an even smaller one. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">&#8220;Magnificent job defending the glorious revolution, <i>companero</i>!&#8221;</span></a></p>
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		<title>Remember When Democrats Booted Parentless Hispanic Children From the U.S.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-1.24.43-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236023" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-1.24.43-PM-450x343.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-07-10 at 1.24.43 PM" width="269" height="205" /></a>Attorney General Eric Holder can hardly contain his tears when explaining his program titled “Justice AmeriCorps,” to provide emergency legal representation for the tens of thousands of Central American minors crashing our southern border.</p>
<p>“How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings, many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking – goes to the core of who we are as a nation,” Holder said while detailing his program to provide 100 lawyers and paralegals for the minors.</p>
<p>And yet it was (then) Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder who concocted the “legal” cover for the INS to mace, kick, stomp, and gun-butt their way into the home of Elian Gonzalez’s legal custodians (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) on the morning of April 22, 2000, wrench a bawling 6-year-old child from his family at machine-gun point and bundle him off to Castro’s terror-sponsoring fiefdom, leaving 102 people (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) injured, some seriously.</p>
<p>Even as the mace dispersed and Elian’s custodians sought medical help for their injuries, FoxNews Andrew Napolitano already had Eric Holder’s number:</p>
<p>&#8220;Tell me, Mr. Holder,” <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/06/13/obama-vp-committe-member-helped-enable-2000-elian-gonzalez-seizure">Judge Napolitano asked on April 23, 2000</a>,</span> &#8220;why did you not get a court order authorizing you to go in and get the boy [Elian Gonzalez]?&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Holder:</b> Because we didn’t need a court order. INS can do this on its own.</p>
<p><b>Napolitano: </b>You know that a court order would have given you the cloak of respectability to have seized the boy.</p>
<p><b>Holder: </b>We didn’t need an order.</p>
<p><b>Napolitano: </b>Then why did you ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for such an order if you didn’t need one?</p>
<p><b>Holder:</b> [Silence]</p>
<p><b>Napolitano: </b>The fact is, for the first time in history you have taken a child from his residence at gunpoint to enforce your custody position, even though you did not have an order authorizing it. When is the last time a boy, a child, was taken at the point of a gun without an order of a judge…Unprecedented in American history.”</p>
<p><b>Holder: </b>“He was not taken at the point of a gun.”</p>
<p><b>Napolitano:</b> “We have a photograph showing he was taken at the point of a gun.”</p>
<p><b>Holder: </b>“They were armed agents who went in there who acted very sensitively…”</p>
<p>The nature of this “sensitivity,” I’ve already mentioned, including the number injured by the mace, gun-butts and jackboots. Thanks to the ritual MSM-Castroite collusion most people forget (or missed) the crucial legal and ethical details of the Elian circus/tragedy — which were mostly established during the first week after the boy&#8217;s rescue at sea, after his heroic mother’s drowning.</p>
<p>The “son-belongs-with-his-father” crowd, for instance, “missed” (with the help of the MSM-Democratic complex) that Elian’s father was initially <i>delighted</i> that his motherless son was in the U.S. and in the loving arms of his uncles and cousins.</p>
<p>The evidence — frantically buried by the MSM-Democratic complex — was overwhelming. Mauricio Vicent, a reporter for Madrid newspaper <i>El Pais</i>, wrote that during that first week he’d visited Elian’s home town of Cardenas and talked with Elian’s father, Juan Miguel, along with other family members and friends. All confirmed that Juan Miguel <i>had always longed for his son Elian to flee to the United States.</i> Shortly after Elian’s rescue, his father had <i>even applied for a U.S. visa!</i></p>
<p>Elian’s Miami uncle, Lazaro, explained it repeatedly and best: “I always said I would turn over Elian to his father, when Juan Miguel would come here and claim him. But I [along with practically everyone with experience under communism from Cambodians to Hungarians and from Lithuanians to Cubans] knew such a thing was impossible. He couldn’t do that. I knew it wasn’t Juan Miguel requesting Elian–<i>it was Fidel</i>.”</p>
<p>The legal-weasels forgot (or missed) that on Dec. 1st, 1999 the INS (ostensibly under the jurisdiction of Janet Reno’s and Eric Holder’s Justice Department) asserted that Miami-based uncle Lazaro<i> was indeed Elian’s legal custodian and Florida’s family court indeed the place to arbitrate further issues</i>.</p>
<p>Then on Dec. 5th, 1999, Castro clapped his hands. Instantly the Clinton team and their MSM minions snapped to attention. Within weeks Clinton’s INS had turned its initial decision on its head. Shortly thereafter Clinton’s lawyer chum Gregory Craig was in Havana meeting with Fidel Castro. A few weeks later the INS was kicking down Lazaro Gonzalez’s door, pummeling camera men and elderly ladies to the ground with jackboots and wrenching a screaming Elian from his legal custodians in a blaze of pepper gas and machine guns. When asked for the legal authority for this, they brandished either a search warrant to seize evidence that didn’t exist (and would not have been hidden anyway) or an arrest warrant to seize someone who no one claimed was a criminal or even a lawbreaker.</p>
<p>“They never made it clear just what kind of warrant” it was. &#8220;And neither would it have been legal,” patiently explained Alan Dershowitz (no less!).</p>
<p>So why did Elian’s father change his tune?</p>
<p>Remember Godfather II? Remember the Senate hearings where Frankie Pentangeli, under FBI protection, was prepared to testify against Michael Corleone? The stage was set. Looked like a done-deal for the Feds. Then Frankie looks up and sees his bewildered brother Vincenzo from Sicily, sitting next to Mikey.</p>
<p>Whoops! Frankie sure changed his tune, didn’t he?</p>
<p>Think of Juan Miguel as Frankie Pentangeli. The gun <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/fidel.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Fidel Castro</span></a> held to Juan Miguel’s head was as invisible (to those without experience with Communism) as the one Mikey held to Pentangeli’s head was to most spectators at those hearings.</p>
<p>All that stomping and macing and firepower in the dawn hours of April 22, 2000 horrified and enraged many people for sure – it also amazed. Why such overkill? Why such “Shock and Awe,” many wondered?</p>
<p>Well, it appears that those INS agents <i>genuinely</i> feared that they were on a mission fraught with deadly peril from massive firepower. Fidel Castro himself, you see, had confided to Bill Clinton via his lawyer friend Gregory Craig that Lazaro Gonzalez’s house was crammed with typical Cuban-American right-wing maniacs, all heavily armed, foaming at the mouth, and ready to rumble.</p>
<p>Given that American liberals pretty much share Castro’s view of Americans <i>citizens</i> of Cuban heritage, the Stalinist dictator’s warning was warmly received –and scrupulously acted upon.</p>
<p>But it turned out that the only blasting that morning came from mace and tear gas into the faces of ladies (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) holding infants and rosaries.</p>
<p>A U.S. Justice Dept. that accepted the word of a State-Sponsor-of-Terror whose lifelong dream is to nuke the U.S. (Fidel Castro) over that of lawful U.S. citizens (Cuban-Americans who claimed that from day one Fidel Castro was the one orchestrating Elian’s return, but who mostly register Republican)—such action by a federal agency should really give <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">more U.S. citizens more pause.</span></a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fidelcastro_wideweb__470x3390.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235414" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fidelcastro_wideweb__470x3390-450x324.jpg" alt="File photo of Cuban President Castro attending May Day parade in Revolution Square" width="276" height="199" /></a>&#8220;Everything within the Revolution, nothing outside of it.&#8221;</i> (Fidel Castro speech, June, 1961.)</p>
<p><b><i>&#8220;</i></b><i>Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.&#8221;</i> (Benito Mussolini, Doctrine of Fascism, 1932.)</p>
<p>In his famous speech on June 16, 1961 Fidel Castro, whose KGB-designed jails and torture chambers at the time incarcerated one of every 19 Cubans for political “crimes,” was warning the rest of his subjects how they might stay out of them. In particular he was setting the boundaries of “artistic freedom.” If your prose or poetry or films or journalism served the purposes of the totalitarian regime you were probably safe. Otherwise…?</p>
<p>As usual, even with this declaration Fidel Castro was stealing, from the declarations of his hero <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/12/30/fidel-castros-originality/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Benito Mussolini this time</span></a>. Earlier he also stole from his hero Adolf Hitler.</p>
<p><i>“Condemn me, it doesn’t matter,”</i> declared Fidel Castro during the 1953 trial for his failed Moncada putsch. <i>“History will absolve me</i>.”</p>
<p><i>“You may pronounce me guilty</i>,” declared Adolf Hitler during the 1924 trial for his failed Rathaus putsch. <i>“But the eternal court of history will absolve me.</i>”</p>
<p>Last week National Public Radio (lavished with over $ 4 billion by U.S. taxpayers over the past decade) ran a week-long “special series” on—and <i>from</i>—<a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/06/in-week-long-series-npr-oblivious-to.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Cuba.</span></a> Such was their propaganda value for the Castro regime, that Cuba’s own KGB-founded and mentored media gleefully ran some of them—and in their pristinely unedited form.</p>
<p>Given Castro’s quote above this should serve as quite a “compliment” to NPR’s producers.</p>
<p>That NPR has a soft spot for socialism should not be surprising, however.  After all, “Federal funding is essential to public radio&#8217;s service to the American public,” explains NPR’s own website. “Elimination of federal funding would result in fewer programs, less journalism…and eventually the loss of public radio stations.”</p>
<p>NPR’s brand of journalism came under fire most recently when Republican Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn sponsored a bill in 2011 to defund the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. “Since 2001, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds programming for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, has received nearly $4 billion in taxpayer money,&#8221; explained Senator DeMint at the time. “There’s simply no reason to force taxpayers to subsidize liberal programming they disagree with.”</p>
<p>Liberal programming on the dime of unwitting conservative donors is bad enough. Flat-out KGB-mentored propaganda on behalf of a terror-sponsoring regime that murdered<i> </i>more political prisoners than pre-war Hitler&#8217;s, jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin&#8217;s and came closest of any in history to wantonly igniting a thermo-nuclear war cranks up the offense several notches. Or should.</p>
<p>Even pinkos should be offended by NPR’s latest infomercials on behalf of the Castro-regime, if not by the content, then by the cartoonish and unprofessional presentation of the propaganda. This week NPR’s <i>Morning Edition </i>host David Greene hosted a report from Cuba featuring an interview with a Cuban “man-on-the-street”:</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I was born in 1947, </i><b><i>under capitalism</i></b><i>,&#8221; Landin says. &#8220;(Cuba) used to be a pot of crickets</i><b><i>. </i></b><i>It was the saddest place on earth.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>He wants to be sure we understand how Cuba was before the revolution.</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;Have you been to Haiti? That&#8217;s what Cuba used to look like. A few people were rich, and everyone else was starving.”</i><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p>See Spot run. See Dick and Jane play. “Good grief, NPR!” Castro himself might wince. “I know you mean well. And it’s one thing to earn your Havana bureau. But <i>please</i>, some subtlety and maturity would help. You sound like Igor complimenting his master.”</p>
<p>What makes their Castroite pamphleteering even worse is how NPR bills itself as intrepid investigators who don’t just report. &#8220;Great storytelling and rigorous reporting,” boasts the NPR intro page. “These are the passions that fuel us (here at NPR)&#8230;<i>But always we dig, question, examine and explore.</i> We never settle for obvious answers and predictable stereotypes. We look to <i>connect history </i>and culture to breaking news.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, exactly how much &#8220;digging&#8221; would have been required by NPR’s intrepid investigative reporter David Greene (or his staff) to correct this &#8220;rigorous&#8221; bit of &#8220;reporting&#8221;? Exactly how much &#8220;questioning&#8221; and &#8220;examination&#8221; would have been required to obliterate one of the most grotesque Castroite lies of the century—to “connect history” with the truth, as NPR claims as its goal?</p>
<p>Not much. In fact pre-Castro Cuba enjoyed a higher-standard of living than most of Europe, from which it attracted a flood of immigrants&#8211;to say nothing of next door Haiti, whose residents often jumped on rafts desperate to<i> enter</i> pre-Castro Cuba.</p>
<p>Think about that for a second, amigos: people used to jump on rafts and take to the high seas trying to <i>enter</i> Cuba. Yet NPR would have us believe Cuba was as poor as Haiti!</p>
<p>“One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class,&#8221; found a report from The Geneva-based International Labor Organization in 1957. “44 per cent of Cubans — a higher percentage than Americans at the time— are covered by social legislation. Cuban workers are more unionized (proportional to the population) than U.S. workers. The average wage for an 8-hour day in Cuba in 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S. the figure is 70 per cent, in Switzerland 64 per cent.”</p>
<p>When no NPR “reporters” are within hearing range, Commies can be extremely frank with each other. Early in the Cuban revolution, for instance, Czech economist Radoslav Selucky visited Cuba and gaped: &#8220;We thought Cuba was underdeveloped except for a few sugar refineries?!&#8221; he wrote upon returning to Prague. &#8220;This is false. Almost a quarter of Cuba’s labor force was employed in industry where the salaries <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">were equal to those in the U.S.!&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p>The Castro brothers and Che Guevara converted a nation with a higher per capita income than half of Europe, the lowest inflation rate in the Western hemisphere, a huge influx of immigrants and whose unionized workers enjoyed the 8th-highest industrial wages in the world into one that repels Haitians. And this after being lavished with Soviet subsidies that totaled almost ten Marshall Plans (into a nation of 6.4 million.) This economic feat defies not only the laws of economics but seemingly the very laws of physics. One place where Cuban exiles agree wholeheartedly with Castro and Che is regarding their exalted posts as Third World icons. They certainly converted Cuba into a humdinger of a Third World nation.</p>
<p>David Green has much to learn from one of NPR’s other Cuba correspondents Nick Miroff, who’d never attempt anything as crude as Green’s recent morning edition. Miroff, who also contributes to the Washington Post, is married to the daughter of one of Castro’s top KGB protégés. The man who would have been Miroff’s late father-in-law, Manuel Piniero, founded and headed the Castro regime’s secret police and international terror agency the <i>Dirección General de Inteligencia</i> (DGI.)  As often happens to top players in his profession, (Yezhov, Yagoda, Beria in the mother country) Piniero himself was offed in 1998 after his usefulness to the Castros expired. Not that you’d guess any of Miroff’s background (and what might be influencing his NPR and Washington Post “reporting”) from  the Washington Post and NPR bios of their valued Latin American correspondent.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">Just thought <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/03/27/washington-post-and-npr-cuba-reporter-nick-miroff-married-to-daughter-of-cuban-g-2-founder-and-kgb-protege-manuel-barbaroja-piniero/">you should know.</a> </span></p>
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		<title>“The Smartest Woman in the World” Flunks Her Foreign Policy Exam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary and her Castro romance. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hill.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234601" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hill-450x243.jpg" alt="hill" width="283" height="153" /></a>Worse still, the flunkie in this article title recently served as U.S. Secretary of State. Back in the &#8217;90s when she served as First Lady (co-president, some say) Hillary Clinton was widely known as “The Smartest Woman in the World.” Her husband Bill supposedly coined the term, but Rush Limbaugh ran with it, snarking and laughing. Soon it was household.</p>
<p>In her new book, Hillary Clinton reveals that she prodded President Obama to “lift or ease” (what’s left of the so-called) Cuba embargo. “The embargo is Castro’s best friend,” Clinton explained to a delighted audience at the anti-embargo Council on Foreign Relations last week while promoting her book <em>Hard Choices. </em></p>
<p>But doesn’t the “Smartest Woman in the World” and former U.S. Secretary of State know that what’s left of the sanctions against Castro’s Stalinist regime are codified into law and can only be lifted by Congress, obviously after a vote? In fact, this codification took place with passage of the Helms-Burton act in 1996, when she was first lady (co-president.)</p>
<p>The current U.S. president, having already delighted Castro by loopholing the Cuba sanctions almost to death, can’t go much further. Has Ms. Clinton forgotten? Or is this constitutional “expert” advocating (even more) U.S. government by executive fiat?</p>
<p>And what about the $2 billion (worth $7 billion today) stolen at Soviet gunpoint by Castro’s gunmen in 1960 from U.S. businessmen and stockholders, after the torture and murder <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">of a few Americans who resisted?</a> That very Helms-Burton law also calls for a settling of that account before allowing any more loopholing of the embargo.</p>
<p>Perhaps instead of attending Yale Law School and marrying “her way to the top,” Hillary Rodham Clinton should have “stayed home and baked cookies,” (to succumb to her own famous insult against America’s stay-at home moms), then sold them at a lemonade stand. If so, she’d know a little about business. To wit: When somebody stiffs you big–time (as Castro did to the U.S. like nobody in history) before extending them more credit you demand they settle up the amount in arrears. <em>Comprende</em>, “Smartest Woman in the World”?</p>
<p>More basic still, Webster&#8217;s defines &#8220;embargo&#8221; as &#8220;a government order imposing a trade barrier.&#8221; As a verb it&#8217;s defined as &#8220;to prevent commerce.&#8221; But according to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. (thanks to her husband’s loopholes in 1999) has transacted almost $4 billion in trade with Cuba over the past 14 years. Up until five years ago, the U.S. served as Stalinist Cuba’s <em>biggest food supplier</em> and fifth biggest import partner. For over a decade the so-called U.S. embargo, so disparaged by Hillary Clinton, has mostly stipulated that Castro’s Stalinist regime pay cash up front through a third–party bank for all U.S. agricultural products; no Export-Import Bank (U.S. taxpayer) financing of such sales.</p>
<p>Enacted by the Bush team in 2001, (attempting to patch some of her husband’s loopholes) this cash-up-front policy has been monumentally beneficial to U.S. taxpayers, making them among the few in the world not stiffed by the Castro regime, which per capita-wise qualifies as the world’s biggest dead-beat. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Standard &amp; Poors refuses to even rate Cuba.</a></p>
<p>Again, shouldn’t a former U.S. Sec. of State be familiar with this?</p>
<p>Now back to her parroting of the KGB-mentored meme: “The embargo is Castro’s best friend it provides Castro with a foil for his failures.” This meme ranks as the favorite talking point of Castro’s agents, on the payroll and off. Sadly, it’s widely believed by the superficially-informed on Cuban matters.</p>
<p>First off, if Castro “<em>secretly</em> favors the embargo,” then why did every one of his <em>secret</em> agents campaign <em>secretly</em> and obsessively <em>against</em> the embargo while working as <em>secret</em> agents?   Castro managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Montes, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/18/ana-montes-did-much-harm-spying-for-cuba-chances-are-you-havent-heard-of-her/">known as &#8220;Castro’s Queen Jewel&#8221; in the intelligence community. </a> In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.</p>
<p>Prior to her visit from the FBI and handcuffing, Montes worked tirelessly to influence U.S. foreign policy against the embargo. The same holds for more recently arrested, convicted and incarcerated Cuban spies Carlos and Elsa Alvarez and Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers. All worked tirelessly to influence U.S. policy against the &#8220;embargo&#8221; while working as secret agents.</p>
<p>It’s one thing for some talking heads with their typically overworked and harried research staff to remain ignorant of these vital matters. But shouldn’t a former U.S. Secretary of State be familiar with matters so vital to U.S. security?</p>
<p>Also, Ms. Clinton, if you claim to speak on behalf of the “hurt by the embargo” Cuban people, why not look at what these Cuban people <em>themselves</em> think of U.S. sanctions against the regime that oppresses them? Or is it better to take them for idiots, as you apparently do the American people?</p>
<p>In fact, in a way you have a point. The Cuban <em>do </em>want a change in U.S. sanctions—the Cuban people <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/06/over-830-cuban-democracy-activists-sign.html">want them <em>tightened </em>! </a> They’re outraged by the windfall of cash showering their oppressors from the U.S. nowadays. In executive order after executive order, President Obama abolished President Bush’s travel and remittance restrictions to Castro’s terror-sponsoring fiefdom and opened the pipeline to a point where the cash-flow from the U.S. to Cuba today is estimated at $4 billion a year.</p>
<p>Almost half a million people visited Cuba from the U.S. last year. Yet while a proud Soviet satrapy Cuba received $3-5 billion annually from the Soviets. In brief, almost every year since Obama took office more cash has been flowing from the U.S. to Cuba than used to flow there from the Soviets at the height of their Cuba-sponsorship. And more people from the U.S. have been visiting Cuba than visited during year featured in &#8220;The Godfather II.&#8221; Result?</p>
<p>The Cuban people are suffering a <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-longest-romance-the-mainstream-media-and-fidel-castro/">ten-year record of repression</a> at the hands of the fat and happy KGB-trained security forces. The current wave of repression slightly tops the 2013 <em>record</em> wave of repression that coincided with the<em> record</em> tourism revenues that year.)</p>
<p>In brief: record tourism=record repression. In brief: Every shred of observable evidence proves that travel to Cuba and business with its Stalinist mafia enriches and entrenches these KGB-trained and heavily-armed owners of Cuba’s tourism industry. Thus they remain the most highly motivated guardians of Cuba’s Stalinist and Terror-Sponsoring status-quo.</p>
<p>Please note: there is no “doing business with Cuba.” There is only doing business with the KGB- and GRU-trained Stalinist fat-cats who occupy Cuba. Castro’s Stalinist fiefdom allows no genuine private sector, as exists in China, however despicable that regime. The Cuban “constitution” outlaws all private property.</p>
<p>So kindly stifle the reflexive and asinine: “But we do business with China! Why not Cuba?!” The comparison isn’t even an apples to oranges. It’s grapes to pumpkins.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Castro’s Stalinist regime mandates 15 years in their KGB-designed dungeons for any Cuban saying a nice thing about the U.S. embargo. (And yet “The Smartest Woman in the World,” Hillary Clinton, claims the embargo is “Castro’s best friend!”)</p>
<p>“Since it has run out of doors to knock on, (the Castro regime) is now focused on the United States,” writes Cuban dissident and 3-time Amnesty-International prisoner of conscience Rene Gomez Manzanoin in a recent samizdat smuggled from his Communist-occupied homeland:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Lifting the embargo would be a mistake without Cuba first respecting its people&#8217;s fundamental human rights…If the U.S. allows financing towards Cuba, it will be U.S. taxpayers who would be sustaining the Castro regime.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So here’s a foreign “Hispanic,” who instead of scheming to avail himself of booty courtesy of U.S. taxpayers is actually<em> warning</em> the U.S. taxpayer against the predatory machinations against his wallet by <em>his own</em> millionaire politicians, their cronies at the Council on Foreign Relations all in cahoots <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/03/06/mr-chavez-you-were-no-fidel-castro/david-rockefeller-and-fidel-castro-shaking-hands/">with their friend in Cuba.</a></p>
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		<title>The Taliban Got Back Their Terrorists – Now Castro Wants His</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alan Gross/Cuban-Five deal?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cf.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233504" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cf.jpg" alt="cf" width="292" height="148" /></a>It didn’t take long. Exactly two days after the announcement of the Berghal/Taliban-Five deal, Cuba’s Terror-Sponsoring (official classification by U.S. State Dept.) regime started clamoring for an Alan Gross/Cuban-Five deal.</p>
<p>Alan Gross is a Jewish American held hostage by the Castro regime since December 2009 when he was arrested while distributing computers and satellite phones to Cuba’s microscopic ( and mostly regime-collaborationist) Jewish community while on assignment for USAID (United States Agency for International Development.) After a “trial,” the Castro regime formally sentenced Gross to fifteen years in prison.</p>
<p>“The Cuban Five” are Cuban terrorist/ spies nabbed in south Florida in 1998 and convicted in U.S. federal courts of 26 counts of espionage along with conspiracy to commit murder&#8211; of three U.S. citizens. Two of the five communist spies have already had their sentences reduced and been returned to heroes’ welcomes in Cuba.</p>
<p>To add grotesque insult to Alan Gross’ injury, the very people he was attempting to help, “testified” against him in Castro’s kangaroo court almost <em>en masse</em>. You have to be very careful when entering a snake pit like Castro’s Cuba.</p>
<p>Alan Gross’ heart seemed in the right place, but the wisdom of his Cuban mission can be debated. The people he was trying to help—the few Jews who remained in Castro’s Cuba after over 90 per cent fled the communist revolution—were mostly old Bolsheviks who couldn’t bring themselves to break with the old time religion. As mentioned, they and their descendants did their duty to the Castro regime by ratting out Alan Gross during judicial procedures perfectly mimicking those presided over by Andrei Vishinsky during The Great Terror’s show trials.</p>
<p>“<em>Et Tu Adela</em>?” might have been gasped by the hapless Alan Gross during his trial. But we don’t know because his “trial” was closed to the (uncomplaining) press –from CNN to ABC from NBC to CBS from NPR to PBS&#8211; who infest Cuba. After all, these “gallant crusades for the truth!” (as Columbia school of Journalism hails it’s graduates) have plenty on their Cuban plates already, what with the vital tasks of transcribing the Stalinist regime’s steady flow of propaganda hand-outs and reporting such bombshell scoops as what Beyonce and Jay-Z wore on their Havana visit.</p>
<p>“Adela” refers to Castroite apparatchik Adela Dworin, who performs as president of Havana’s “Jewish Community House” for gullible tourists and “cultural exchange” ambassadors to the Castro family fiefdom. Later, as a proper cap for the revolting Stalinesque charade, Adela Dworin visited Gross in his cell and posed smilingly with her arm around the gaunt but bitterly smiling American hostage she swindled, framed and helped condemn to fifteen years <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/05/05/alan-gross-poses-with-the-fine-folks-who-duped-him-spied-on-him-and-helped-convict-him/">in a KGB-designed dungeon. </a></p>
<p>A declassified KGB document from May, 20, 1981 revealed by Vladimir Bukovsky snickers the following: “Cultural exchanges with foreign countries are our most effective propaganda.”</p>
<p>To say nothing of a handy-dandy cash pipeline and hostage buffet. As mentioned, Alan Gross was on assignment for USAID. But the scamming of U.S. agencies has never offered even modest sport for Castro’s people. The only challenge might be&#8230;.remember how on the old Carol Burnett show how Carol, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway always cracked up during skits? After trying to stifle the guffaws?</p>
<p>Well, who could possibly blame Castro and his people for similar facial contortions when sneaking vital data to our crackerjack CIA sleuths. To wit:</p>
<p>“We’ve infiltrated Castro’s guerrilla group in the Sierra Mountains. The Castro brothers and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara <em>have no affiliations with any Communists whatsoever.”</em> (Havana CIA station chief Jim Noel Nov. 1958.)</p>
<p>“Fidel Castro is not only <em>not</em> a communist –he’s a strong <em>anti</em>-Communist fighter. He’s ready to help us in the hemisphere’s anti-communist fight and we should share our intelligence with him.” (CIA Cuba “expert” Frank Bender, after conferring with Fidel Castro upon the latter’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">visit to the U.S. in April, 1959.)   </a></p>
<p>In an unguarded moment while speaking to the Simon Weisenthal’s Rabbi Abraham Cooper who was allowed to visit Gross last year, a Castro official spilled the beans on Gross’ arrest. Naturally, the U.S. media (eager to maintain their cushy Havana bureaus) have “overlooked” this fascinating item<em>. “Everyone knows that the Jews have a lot of clout in Washington,”</em> the Castro official told Rabbi Cooper, “somewhat sheepishly”&#8211; so sentencing Gross to 15 years could be the key to win the freedom of their agents jailed <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/04/must-read-was-alan-gross-arrested.html">in the U.S., the thinking went.” </a></p>
<p>Point is, Castro got his American hostage in December 2009, and &#8212; convinced he held a good hand &#8212; immediately cranked up the propaganda campaign to swap his convicted terrorists for Alan Gross. This “Free the Cuban Five” campaign features a rogue’s gallery of Castro’s American agents–of-influence, on the payroll and off; from Danny Glover to Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon, from Oliver Stone to and Tom Hayden and Jimmy Carter.</p>
<p>Yes, the “Elder Statesmen” of America’s<em> majority</em> political party lends his name to a communist propaganda campaign to unconditionally free the KGB-trained terrorist guilty of&#8211; from the FBI affidavit:</p>
<p>*Gathering intelligence against the Boca Chica Air Naval Station in Key West, the McDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Homestead, Fla.</p>
<p>* Compiling the names, home addresses and medical files of the U.S. Southern Command’s top officers, along with those of hundreds of officers stationed at Boca Chica.</p>
<p>* Infiltrating the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command.</p>
<p>* Sending letter bombs to Cuban-Americans.</p>
<p>* Spying on McDill Air Force Base, the U.S. armed forces’ worldwide headquarters for fighting “low-intensity” conflicts.</p>
<p>* Locating entry points into Florida for smuggling explosive material.</p>
<p>One of these Castro agents, Gerardo Hernandez, also infiltrated the Cuban-exile group Brothers to the Rescue, who flew unarmed planes to rescue Cuban rafters in the Florida straits, also known as “the cemetery without crosses.” The estimates of the number of Cubans dying horribly in the “cemetery without crosses” run from 50-85,000. Brothers to The Rescue risked their lives almost daily, flying over the straits, alerting and guiding the Coast Guard to any <em>balseros</em>, and saving thousands of these desperate people from joining that terrible tally. (Prior to Castroism, by the way, Cuba was swamped with more immigrants per-capita than the U.S., including during the Ellis Island years.)</p>
<p>By February of 1996, Brothers to The Rescue had flown 1,800 of these humanitarian missions and helped rescue 4,200 men, women and children. That month Danny Glover’s and Jimmy Carter’s <em>cause célèbre’</em> passed to Castro the flight plan for one of the Brothers’ humanitarian flights over the straits.</p>
<p>With this info in hand, Castro’s Top Guns, jumped into their MIGs, took off and valiantly blasted apart (in international air space) the lumbering and utterly defenseless Cessnas. Four members of the humanitarian flights were thus murdered in cold blood by communists. Three of these murdered men were U.S. citizens, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">one a decorated Vietnam veteran.</a></p>
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		<title>Chamber of Commerce Chief in Havana: End the Embargo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/chamber-of-commerce-building-thumb-436x363-7342-thumb-436x363-15416.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226699 alignleft" alt="chamber-of-commerce-building-thumb-436x363-7342-thumb-436x363-15416" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/chamber-of-commerce-building-thumb-436x363-7342-thumb-436x363-15416-420x350.jpg" width="294" height="245" /></a>U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue was barely finished calling for the further impoverishment  of American workers (i.e. “immigration reform”) when he shows up as a guest of Cuba’s Stalinist regime and gives a speech at the University of Havana calling for a further fleecing of American taxpayers (i.e. ending the so-called Cuba embargo.) </span></p>
<p>“For years, the US Chamber of Commerce has demanded that our government eliminate the commercial embargo on Cuba. It’s time for a new approach,” proclaimed Donohue this week to an ovation from communist  apparatchiks, some who in 1960 stormed into almost 6000 U.S. owned businesses (worth almost $ 2 billion at the time) and stole them all at Soviet gunpoint.</p>
<p>A few American business-owners resisted. One of these was Howard Anderson who owned a filling stations and Jeep dealership (not a casino or brothel, which were relatively rare in pre-Castro Cuba, by the way.) I’ll quote from Anderson v. Republic of Cuba, No. 01-28628 (Miami-Dade Circuit Court, April 13, 2003). &#8220;In one final session of torture, Castro&#8217;s agents drained Howard Anderson&#8217;s body of blood before sending him to his death at the firing squad.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Inter-American Law Review classifies Castro’s mass burglary of U.S. property as “the largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history.”  Rubbing his hands and snickering in triumphant glee, Castro boasted at maximum volume to the entire world that he was freeing Cuba from &#8220;Yankee economic slavery!&#8221; (Che Guevara&#8217;s term, actually) and that &#8220;he would never repay a penny!&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the only promise Fidel Castro has ever kept in his life. Hence the imposition of the Cuba embargo, not that you’d know any of this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">from the mainstream media</a>, much less from Thomas Donohue.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The burglarized (and often brutalized) American owners filed those property claims against Castro’s regime with the U.S. government. They’re worth $7 billion today&#8211;and must be settled before the so called embargo is lifted. This settlement provision for lifting the embargo was codified into U.S. law in 1996 by the Helms-Burton act, which means only Congress can lift the embargo, obviously after a vote. But the votes are not there. </span></p>
<p>Shouldn’t the President of an outfit like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce be aware of this?  Or is Donohue calling for more of Obama’s “executive overreach?”</p>
<p>“The reforms under Raul Castro’s government demonstrate that Cuban leaders understand that direct economic investment can be a powerful tool for economic development,” proclaimed Donahue to another ovation from his communist audience.</p>
<p>Oh, Cuba’s Stalinist kleptocracy understands this alright. But this “economic development” via foreign investment exclusively benefits the tiny Stalinist nomenklatura that has run Cuba since 1959—and enthusiastically hosted Thomas Donahue this week. All foreign trade with “Cuba” is still conducted exclusively with the Stalinist regime—no exceptions. In fact private property rights still do not exist in Cuba, much less an independent judiciary and the rule of law.</p>
<p>According to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. has transacted almost $4 <i>billion</i> in trade with Cuba over the past decade. Up until four years ago, the U.S. served as Stalinist Cuba’s biggest food supplier and fifth biggest import partner. We’ve fallen a few notches recently but we’re still in the top half.</p>
<p>For over a decade the so-called U.S. embargo, so disparaged by Thomas Donahue, has mostly stipulated that Castro’s Stalinist regime pay cash up front through a third–party bank for all U.S. agricultural products; no Ex-Im (U.S. taxpayer) financing of such sales. And <i>that’s</i> the catch with Donahue’s gracious hosts. They’re <i>desperate</i> to abolish that provision.</p>
<p>Enacted by the Bush team in 2001, this cash-up-front policy has been monumentally beneficial to U.S. taxpayers, making them among the few in the world not screwed and tattooed by the Castro regime, which per capita-wise qualifies as the world’s biggest debtor nation, with a foreign debt estimated at $50 billion, a credit rating nudging Somalia’s and an uninterrupted record of defaults. Standard &amp; Poors refuses even to rate Cuba, regarding the economic figures released by its Stalinist apparatchiks as utterly bogus. Just this year the Russians wrote off almost $30 billion Castro still owed them.</p>
<p>Regarding the disconnect seen above between historic truth and Castroite propaganda, what we have here, amigos, is not a “failure to communicate.” Instead it’s <i>perfect</i> communication&#8211; between Castro’s propaganda ministry and the U.S. media (and “business leaders”) to whom they issue press bureaus and visas, after careful vetting. These latter amply live up to their side of the bargain, “reporting” exactly what Castro wants them to report.</p>
<p>A Spanish businessman named Fernandez Gonzalez has an interesting story that might serve as an education for Thomas Donahue, or for those who might fall for his siren song, as composed by the kleptocratic Castro brothers:</p>
<p>“A few years ago, I created in the Hemingway Marina, a tourist zone near Havana, a bar/restaurant…then during a farce that would not hold water in any Western judicial system &#8212; my business was taken from me and I became &#8220;an enemy of the people.&#8221; Today, I remain deprived, without recourse, of the property that I steadfastly and honorably worked to create for many years.  I don&#8217;t want other foreign investors, who travel to Cuba under some siren song to suffer the same fate as I did. Thus I recommend, I beg, that you don&#8217;t contribute with your money and knowledge to shore-up Cuba&#8217;s dictatorship…Because there is not the slightest judicial guarantee. There is no Rule of Law that protects investors, nor anyone else. In Cuba, what prevails are not rights, but the will and whim of those who govern. The same thing that happened to business owners at the beginning of the revolution can <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2013/07/must-read-want-to-do-business-in-cuba.html">happen, and does happen, to today&#8217;s investors and businessmen.”</a></p>
<p>One fine morning in February 2009 the Castro brothers woke up and decided to freeze $1 billion that 600 foreign companies kept in Cuban bank accounts. Another fine morning in April 2012 the Cuban regime arrested the top officers of Britain-based Coral Capital that had invested $75 million in the Castro brothers’ fiefdom and was planning four and luxurious golf resorts. These hapless (greedy, unprincipled and stupid, actually) businessmen find themselves with no more recourse to law than the millions of Cubans and Americans who had their businesses and savings stolen en<i> masse</i> in August of 1960 by Castro’s gunmen.</p>
<p>After all, Che Guevara who served as Cuba’s “Finance Minister” during the initial mass burglaries of Cuban and U.S. owned properties explained the regime’s legal guidelines very succinctly in January 1959, when he served as chief hangman. “Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. We execute (and jail and torture and steal) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">based on Revolutionary conviction.”</a></p>
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		<title>Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Castro&#8217;s Propagandist &amp; Snitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224087" alt="cas" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cas-450x320.jpg" width="315" height="224" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The eulogies for Nobel-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez upon his death last week make two points official:  </span></p>
<p>1.) No amount of moral and intellectual wretchedness will earn an artist even the mildest rebuke from most of his professional peers and their related institutions — so long as the wretch hires himself out to communists.</p>
<p>2.) The masochism of Democratic U.S. Presidents is boundless.</p>
<p>This is not to suggest that the media eulogies sidestep Garcia Marquez’s politics. Most are quite upfront about it. Let’s take the one run by <em>The New York Times</em> as emblematic:</p>
<blockquote><p>Like many Latin American intellectuals and artists, Mr. García Márquez felt impelled to speak out on the political issues of his day. He viewed the world from a left-wing perspective, bitterly opposing Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the right-wing Chilean <i>dictator</i>, and unswervingly supporting Fidel Castro in Cuba. Mr. Castro became such a close friend that Mr. García Márquez showed him drafts of his unpublished books.</p></blockquote>
<p>Notice the word “dictator” above. But with whom does the New York Times associate it?  Pinochet, of course. Does Fidel Castro also qualify as dictator?  <em>The New York Times</em> does not tell us.</p>
<p>“Mr. García Márquez’s ties to Mr. Castro troubled some intellectuals and human rights advocates,” continues the NYTimes,</p>
<blockquote><p>Susan Sontag wrote in the 1980s, &#8220;To me it’s scandalous that a writer of such enormous talent be a spokesperson for a government which has put more people in jail (proportionately to its population) than any other government in the world.&#8221; … He attributed the criticism to what he called Americans’ &#8216;almost pornographic obsession with Castro.&#8217; But he became sensitive enough about the issue to intercede on behalf of jailed Cuban dissidents.</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, fully contrary to <em>The New York Times</em>’ whitewash, Garcia Marquez’s “intercession” is what got some of those dissidents jailed and tortured by his friend Castro in the first place. Let’s not mince words. Let’s call out Garcia Marquez categorically: on top of his decades of <i>pro-bono</i> propaganda services for Castroism, Garcia Marquez was also a volunteer snitch for Castro’s KGB-mentored secret police.</p>
<p>At this juncture I’ll turn over the floor to someone intimately familiar with the issue: Armando Valladares, who himself suffered 22 torture-filled years in Castro’s prisons and who was later appointed by Ronald Reagan as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission:</p>
<p>&#8220;Many years ago Garcia Marquez became an informer for Castro’s secret police,” starts a recent exposé by Mr Valladares,</p>
<blockquote><p>At the time, back in Havana, Cuban dissident and human-rights activist, Ricardo Bofill, with help of the then-reporter for Reuters, Collin McSevengy, managed to enter the Havana hotel where García Márquez was having a few drinks. In a quiet corner, with absolute discretion, Bofill gave García Márquez a series of documents relating to several Cuban artists. A few weeks later Castro&#8217;s police arrested Ricardo Bofill&#8211;and displayed on the table right next to Castro’s secret-policeman &#8212; <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/04/20/nobel-winner-gabriel-garcia-marquez-on-top-of-being-a-fervent-castro-propagandist-was-also-a-volunteer-snitch-for-castros-secret-police/">were the very documents which Bofill had given García Márquez.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Bofill, a peaceful human-rights activist inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., went on to suffer 12 years in Castro’s prisons—thanks to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. On October 13, 1968, the Spanish newspapers <i>ABC</i> and <i>Diario 16</i>, published Bofill&#8217;s disclosures and headlined that: &#8220;García Márquez['s] revelations led to the imprisonment of numerous Cuban writers and artists.&#8221;<i> </i></p>
<p>All of this was conveniently “forgotten” by most media outlets last week.</p>
<p>But enough from me. Instead, let’s hear from some folks much closer to this issue. Let’s hear from Cuban writers who were suffering in Castro’s KGB-designed dungeons and torture chambers while Gabriel Garcia Marquez contributed his literary influence and might towards glorifying their torturer.</p>
<p>The late Reynaldo Arenas’ autobiography <i>Before Night Falls</i> was on <em>The New York Times</em>&#8216; list of the ten best books of the year in 1993. In 2000, the book became a movie starring Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp and Sean Penn. Throughout the &#8217;70s, Arenas was jailed and tortured by Castro’s police for his rebellious writings and gay lifestyle. He finally escaped on the Mariel boat-lift tin 1980. Here’s his take on Gabriel Garcia Marquez from 1982:</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s high time for all the intellectuals of the free world (the rest don&#8217;t exist) to take a stand against this unscrupulous propagandist for totalitarianism. I wonder why these intellectual apologists for communist paradises don’t live in them? Or is it that they prefer collecting payment there and here, while enjoying the comforts and guarantees of the western world?</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, Garcia Marquez did live on and off in Cuba, in a (stolen) mansion Castro gifted him, where he frolicked with adolescent girls between traveling through Havana in a (stolen) Mercedes also gifted him by Castro.</p>
<p>Here’s Cuban-exile author Roberto Luque Escalona, briefly an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, who escaped Cuba in 1992:</p>
<blockquote><p>Only a five star-scoundrel would put his literary fame in the service of a cause as vile and malignant as the Castro tyranny. Simple frivolity cannot possibly justify an embrace so long and strong as the one Garcia-Marquez gave someone who devastated a nation, murdered thousands, jailed and tortured tens of thousands dispersed an entire nation and debased the rest.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now let’s hear from some people whose fate allowed a more detached view of Gabriel Garcia Marquez than Arenas and Luque Escalona: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.</p>
<p>“I once had the privilege to meet him in Mexico,” President Obama was quoted in Politico last week,</p>
<blockquote><p>where he presented me with an inscribed copy that I cherish to this day. As a proud Colombian, a representative and voice for the people of the Americas, and as a master of the &#8220;magic realism&#8221; genre, he has inspired so many others….I offer my thoughts to his family and friends, whom I hope take solace in the fact that Gabo’s work will live on for generations to come.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I was saddened to learn of the passing of Gabriel García Márquez,” mourned Bill Clinton. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>From the time I read &#8220;One Hundred Years of Solitude&#8221; more than 40 years ago, I was always amazed by his unique gifts of imagination, clarity of thought, and emotional honesty. I was honored to be his friend and to know his great heart and brilliant mind for more than 20 years.</p></blockquote>
<p>In an interview with France’s <i>Le Monde</i> in 1981, Garcia Marquez remarked that, <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/04/21/reinaldo-arenas-on-gabo-gabrieel-garcia-marquez-esbirro-o-es-burro-tool-or-fool/">&#8220;the problem with visiting men like Fidel Castro is that one winds up loving them too much.</a>&#8221; A few years earlier he was denouncing the desperate Vietnamese boat-people as “war-criminals,” “Yankee-lackeys” and worse.</p>
<p>Garcia Marquez shared all of Fidel Castro’s hatred against the U.S., a passion that contributed much to their long and warm friendship. Given this rabid hatred for the nation that elected them, you’d really think &#8212; especially given White House speech writing budgets &#8212; that these U.S. Presidents could have found a way to express their admiration for Garcia Marquez’s art without so warmly embracing the wretched artist himself.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Patrick Leahy champions Internet freedom everyplace on earth -- but Cuba. Why?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Twitter-censor.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223525" alt="Twitter-censor" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Twitter-censor-350x350.jpg" width="280" height="280" /></a></span>It’s not often that a U.S. government agency gets caught red-handed abiding by its charter and performing its publicly-avowed and legislatively-approved duties. But last week the AP “broke” a long and breathless story from Havana that nailed the USAID (United States Agency for International Development) for just that.</p>
<p>In their own words, “a secret plan aimed at undermining Cuba’s communist government,” was courageously exposed by the AP’s intrepid Havana bureau.</p>
<p>Such is the magnitude of the scandal that a red-faced and snarling Senator Patrick Leahy is now chairing hearings on Capitol Hill where he grills USAID director Rajiv Shah on his agency’s “<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/04/sen-patrick-leahy-rips-cuban-twitter-cockamamie-idea/">cockamamie!” plan.</a></p>
<p>The diabolical cloak and dagger scheme hatched in 2008 during George Bush’s term (which may account for Democratic Senator Leahy’s dudgeon) amounted to setting up a “Cuban Twitter” named ZunZuneo (Cuban slang for a hummingbird’s tweet) in order for Cuban youths to text each other without snooping by Castro’s KGB-mentored secret police.</p>
<p>Caught your breath back? Yes, amazingly such a scheme somehow escaped the imaginations of Ian Fleming, John Le Carré <i>and</i> Tom Clancy.</p>
<p>In sum, a brief effort was made (lasting from 2008-12 and involving 68,000 of Castro’s hapless subjects) to allow Cubans (who pre-Castro enjoyed more phones and TVs per-capita than most Europeans) to communicate with each other in the same manner as do teenagers today in such places as Sudan, Papua New Guinea and Laos.</p>
<p>Understandably this scheme to facilitate a tiny window of freedom for a tiny fraction of their subjects greatly alarmed Cuba’s Stalinist rulers. After all, it wasn’t easy converting a free and prosperous nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe, a flood of immigrants from same and the first Mercedes dealership in the Americas into a totalitarian pesthole that repels Haitians and features a glorious rebirth of communications by bongo-drum and transport by oxcart.</p>
<p>Well, the news was barely broken by Castro’s U.S. media allies when, as mentioned, Castro’s U.S. legislative allies picked up the signal from Havana and erupted in outrage—not against the KGB-mentored censorship by a terror-sponsor mind you. But against the U.S. attempt to foil it.  No. This is not your father’s cold war.</p>
<p>Senator Patrick Leahy, true to his historic role as U.S. legislative messenger for Castro’s every whim and wish, promptly denounced the program as “dumb, dumb, dumb.” “What in heaven’s name are you thinking?”‘ Leahy complained to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC about the USAID scheme. “This makes no sense at all.”</p>
<p>What really “makes no sense at all” is Senator Leahy’s hypocritical carping  during the hearings and to Andrea  Mitchell–who, by the way– is famous for gushing that  “Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly—even paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure!”</p>
<p>Leahy’s carping features prominently in <i>all </i>the AP stories and raised a few suspicions among Cuba-watchers regarding the source of the story, because for a certain propensity Senator Leahy has long been nicknamed “Leaky Leahy,” or “Leahy the Leaker.” This propensity reached such a level that in January 1987 Senator Leahy was forced to resign as vice chair of the Intelligence Committee after leaking classified information about the Iran-Contra affair.</p>
<p>(For you millennials, “Iran-Contra” was a Reagan administration plan to foil a Castro/Soviet takeover of Nicaragua. So naturally Senator Patrick Leahy sided the communists who came within a hair of nuking us.)</p>
<p>The Senator is also an unabashed champion of <i>the very thin</i>g he now calls dumb and senseless. Here’s language from a recent Appropriations bill sponsored<i> by Leahy</i> <i>himself</i>:  <a href="http://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/s1372/BILLS-113s1372pcs.pdf"><i>State, Foreign Operations Appropriations</i></a> bill:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>SEC. 7072. (a) Of the funds appropriated under titles 8 I and III of this Act, not less than $44,600,000 shall be made available for programs to promote Internet freedom globally: Provided, That such programs shall be prioritized for countries whose governments restrict freedom of expression on the Internet, and that are important to the national interests of the United State.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Well, as far as “restricting freedom of expression on the internet” the Stalinist Castro regime, according to rankings by Freedom House, holds top honors in the Western Hemisphere <a href="http://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net-2013-global-scores">and 2<sup>nd</sup> place on planet earth.</a> In fact Senator Leahy specifically sponsors ZunZuneo –type programs for Syria, Belarus, Burma, Bahrain, Sudan and Egypt.  Yet Cuba’s ruthless and wholesale internet repression surpasses the internet restrictions by every one of these nations—and often by huge margins.</p>
<p>Given the above “inconsistencies” (let’s call them,) Senator Leahy’s monkeyshines (the snarls! The grimaces! The finger-pointing!)  during the recent hearings certainly command the professional respect of many Cuba-watchers, especially the movie and Broadway aficionados.</p>
<p>Castro’s fiefdom is also an official “state sponsor of terrorism” whose master spy managed the deepest and most damaging<i> </i>penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Montes, known as “Castro’s Queen Jewel” in the intelligence community.  In 2002  she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg  and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison, only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenberg’s.</p>
<p>And speaking of Cuban spies. In one of their many stories exposing this hideous scandal, the AP consults one of its favorite Cuban sources Josefina Vidal, introducing her as “director of U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry.” “The ZunZuneo program shows once again that the United States government has not renounced its plans of subversion against Cuba,” recites Ms Vidal.</p>
<p>It’s galling to be accused of something we no longer have the sense or guts to do, but it’s the AP’s innocuous description of Josefina Vidal that merits attention here, because in fact: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Josefina Vidal was booted from the U.S. in 2003 for espionage.</a></p>
<p>This Stalinist, terror-sponsoring regime sitting 90 miles from U.S. shores also has the blood of countless American citizens on its hands, billions dollars worth of stolen U.S. property in its coffers and boasts a multi-documented record of craving to nuke us—and not only once and 50 years ago.</p>
<p>So it seems that if <i>any</i> nation merits the type of USAID attention championed by Senator Leahy its Cuba.</p>
<p>Don’t look for this anywhere in the MSM (<i>especially</i> the Associated Press!) but just three months ago the Castro regime announced that it would <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/banking-and-finance/2014/01/25/Cuba-to-freeze-foreign-funds-linked-to-al-Qaeda-Taliban.html"><i>stop</i> laundering funds linked to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.</a></p>
<p>You read right. In essence the Castroites answered the famous gotcha question:  “when did you stop beating your wife?”  In other words, they’re implying that for years (and during a long period preceding, during and after the 9-11 terror–atrocity) they partnered financially with America’s terrorist enemies.</p>
<p>Now <i>here’s</i> a story, it seems to many Cuba watchers, worthy of a major media expose in the U.S. But we know better by now. Cuba’s Stalinist rulers, after all, don’t bestow Havana press bureaus randomly. And like all “control-freaks” they conduct frequent “performance evaluations” to monitor the toadyism of their U.S. media hirelings.</p>
<p>So regarding their Havana bureaus, the Associated Press and MSNBC must feel very secure. And consider Senator Leahy’s Cuba visa gold-plated.</p>
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		<title>Council on Foreign Relations Caught Lying about Cuba-North Korea Arms Smuggling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 04:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/seeig-speaking-540p.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222117" alt="KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/seeig-speaking-540p-450x344.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>Back in July a North Korean ship trying to sneak military contraband through the Panama Canal after leaving Havana was stopped by Panamanian authorities on a tip it was carrying illegal drugs.</p>
<p>Instead the ship, named the Chon-Chon Gang, was found to be crammed with missiles, MIGS  and <i>mucho </i>military contraband from terror-sponsoring Cuba <i>en route </i>to North Korea. Nuke-rattling North Korea, by the way, has been under a UN arms embargo since 2006.</p>
<p>At first, Cuban terror-sponsoring dictator Raul Castro tried threatening the Panamanian authorities behind the scenes to keep the issue mum, or at least parrot their version of the scam. But Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli scoffed at the blatant blackmail and made the truth known.</p>
<p>The Council on Foreign Relations, on the other hand, parroted the Castroite version of events almost instantly and almost word for word. Here’s Castro’s version of events:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The 508-foot Chong Chon Gang carried 240 tons of obsolete defensive weapons  were to have been repaired in North Korea and returned to Cuba as part of a commercial deal.” (July 17, 2013)</p></blockquote>
<p>Now here’s the Council on Foreign Relations Latin American “expert” Julia Sweig’s version of events:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about Havana trying to circumvent an arms embargo. It&#8217;s about: how about we refurbish our old weapons&#8221; (Julia Sweig (7/28/2013.)</p></blockquote>
<p>Admittedly, the issue was in doubt at the time. No investigation had been conducted. So who knew the truth?</p>
<p>Fine. So why did an outfit like the Council on Foreign Relations, which bills itself as: “an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank,” not wait for an independent non-partisan investigation to determine the truth?  Why did the Council on Foreign Relations instantly<i> </i>start parroting the version of this issue as concocted by the propaganda ministry of a regime modeled on Stalin’s?</p>
<p>A United Nations panel recently completed its investigation into the Chon-Chon Gang issue, among its findings:  “The incident involving the Chong Chon Gang revealed a comprehensive, <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/03/must-read-un-releases-concerning-report.html">planned strategy to conceal the existence and nature of the cargo.</a>&#8221; The weapons, needless to add, were not “obsolete” or meant to be “refurbished.”</p>
<p>When the CFR’s Julia Sweig visited Cuba in 2010, accompanied by <i>The Atlantic’s </i>Jeffrey Goldberg, something caught Goldberg’s eye:</p>
<p>“We shook hands,” Goldberg writes about the meeting with Fidel Castro. “Then he [Castro] greeted Julia warmly. They [Castro and Sweig] have known each other for more than <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">twenty years.”</a></p>
<p>Julia Sweig’s promotional services for the Castro regime reached a level where the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency top Cuba spycatcher, Chris Simmons (now retired), named her a Cuban “Agent of Influence.”  Some background:</p>
<p>In 25 years as a U.S. Military Counterintelligence officer, Lieut. Col. Simmons helped end the operations of 80 enemy agents, some are today behind bars. One of these had managed the deepest penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Montes, known as “Castro’s Queen Jewel” in the intelligence community. “Montes passed some of our most sensitive information about Cuba back to Havana,” revealed then-Undersecretary for International Security John Bolton.</p>
<p>Today she serves a 25-year sentence in federal prison. She was convicted of “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage,” the same charge against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg carrying the same potential death sentence, for what is widely considered the most damaging espionage case since the “end” of the Cold War. Two years later, in 2003, Chris Simmons helped root out 14 Cuban spies who were promptly booted from the U.S.</p>
<p>In brief, retired Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">knows what he’s talking about.</a></p>
<p>The Council on Foreign Relations’ Julia Sweig holds preeminence in one field. No “scholar” in modern American history thanks the “warm friendship” and “support” of six different communist spies and terrorists in the acknowledgments of their book, three of whom were expelled from the U.S. for terrorism and/or espionage, two for a bombing plot whose death toll would have dwarfed 9/11. Some background:</p>
<p>On Nov. 17, 1962, the FBI cracked a plot by Cuban agents that targeted Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdale’s and Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The massive attack was set for the following week, the day after Thanksgiving. Macy’s get’s 50,000 shoppers that one day. Had those detonators gone off, 9/11’s death toll would have almost certainly taken second.</p>
<p>Here are pictures of some of the Cuban terrorists upon arrest. <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/08/10/the-council-on-foreign-relations-julia-sweig-pushes-for-stronger-sanctions-against-american-deer-hunters-but-lifted-from-terror-sponsoring-regimes/">Note the names<i>: Elsa Montero</i> and <i>Jose Gomez Abad.</i></a></p>
<p>Now here’s an excerpt from the acknowledgements in Julia Sweig’s book <i>Inside the Cuban Revolution</i>, written in collaboration with the Castro-regime:</p>
<blockquote><p>“In Cuba many people spent long hours with me, helped open doors I could not have pushed through myself, and offered friendship and warmth to myself during research trips to the island…Elsa Montero and Jose Gomez Abad championed this project.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to these two KGB-trained terrorists, the CFR’s Julia Sweig thanks the “warm friendship and championship of” of Ramon Sanchez Parodi, Jose Antonio Arbesu, Fernando Miguel Garcia, Hugo Ernesto Yedra and Josefina Vidal for their “warmth, their friendship and their kindness in opening Cuban doors.”</p>
<p>All the above have been identified by Lieut. Col Chris Simmons as veteran officers <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594036675/">in Castro’s KGB-trained intelligence services. </a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/555.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221509" alt="555" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/555.png" width="290" height="240" /></a>A former Communist guerrilla commander linked to various butcheries during El Salvador’s savage civil war in the 1980s won that nation’s Presidential elections this week by a squeaker.</span></p>
<p>Nowadays this former FMLF (<i>Faribundo Marti Liberation Front</i>) commander is accused of partnering with murderous Salvadoran drug-smuggling and human-trafficking gangs that operate in 40 U.S. cities, have been declared  “international criminal organizations” by the U.S. Treasury department, and have had members convicted of multiple murders, rapes and tortures within sight of the U.S. capitol. One of these rape-murders was of Washington intern Chandra Levy.</p>
<p>Salvador Sanchez Ceren is the “former” Communist guerrilla declared winner of El Salvador’s presidential elections this week by 6,600 votes. Since 2009, he had served as El Salvador’s Vice President. Ceren’s electoral opponents of the center-right ARENA party alleged blatant Venezuelan-mentored electoral fraud. But the Salvadoran “Supreme Electoral Tribunal” (staffed and controlled by Ceren’s party) overruled ARENA.</p>
<p>Roger Noriega, a former assistant secretary of state for Western hemisphere affairs with many high-level contacts in the region warns that El Salvador’s FMLF is linked, not only to the Communist leadership of the Castro-Venezuela axis, but to the biggest and wealthiest narco-traffickers in the hemisphere, <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/03/03/ms-13s-secretly-backing-ruling-party-in-el-salvador/">along with their distributors and retailers in the U.S. </a></p>
<p>Chief among these U.S.-based retailers are the Salvadoran MS-13 and MS-18 gangs. These are not your father’s “gangs,” by the way. Latin gangs have come a long way since the Sharks of Westside Story. And “street gangs” in general have come a long way since the Cripps and Bloods. In 2012, the Obama administration declared MS-13 an “international criminal organization,” quite a distinction for a “street gang” and the first case of such an “honor” for a gang operating in the U.S. Some background:</p>
<p>In the 1980s the Cuba-Soviet backed FMLF waged a terror campaign trying to Cubanize the small and impoverished Central American nation of El Salvador. The government fought back and tens of thousands of Salvadorans perished in a variety of ways on both sides of what became a full-fledged and—as usual for such conflicts&#8211; brutal civil war. The U.S. media habitually pegged <i>all </i>resulting deaths on “right-wing death squads”—often spicing up the description with “U.S.-backed” or “U.S.-trained.”</p>
<p>It’s an old story for anyone who fights Communist terror. “If rape’s inevitable” goes the joke, “lay back and enjoy it!” Same apparently goes for Communist revolution. Any resistance will only make things worse and get one demonized by all “respectable” academic and media precincts. There are no historical exceptions to this rule. From Pilsudski and Horthy in Eastern Europe, through Franco in Spain, to Pinochet in Chile— all violently (and successfully) resisted the violent communization of their nations.  And all sport horns and a tail in media/academic depictions.</p>
<p>After being crushed militarily thanks to help from the Reagan administration in the 1980s, the FMLF renounced violence and went respectable as a political party in the 1990s. Now they steal and buy elections. Chicago politics will get you what Bolshevik terror couldn’t, seems like the new motto for Latin American socialists.</p>
<p>This stealing and buying of elections is made easy by the billions of dollars flooding into the area from narco-trafficking. So essentially it’s facilitated by Americans’ appetite for drugs.  Nowadays “revolution” in Latin American is all about narcotrafficking. The Best and the Brightest (and most experienced) in this field is Colombia’s FARC (<i>Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia</i>). Colombian officials estimate the FARC’s annual earnings somewhere <a href="http://en.mercopress.com/2012/10/25/colombia-says-farc-has-an-annual-budget-of-2.4bn-and-an-army-of-8.147">between $2.4 and $3.5 billion.</a></p>
<p>The Marxist mumo-jumbo still pops up in “communiqués” and press releases from the FARC from their Venezuelan <i>Chavista </i>allies, and from<i> </i>the FMLF itself<i>. </i>But after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Latin American Communists of every stripe found their new vocations (and funding) in narco-trafficking.</p>
<p>Hollywood tells us that mobsters hate commies. “I kill a communist for fun!” snarls narco-trafficking capo Tony Montana in Oliver Stone’s 1983 screenplay for Scarface. “For a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice!”</p>
<p>In real life it doesn’t work that way. To wit: &#8220;Thanks to Fidel Castro,&#8221; boasted late FARC commander Tiro-Fijo in a 2002 interview, &#8220;we are now a powerful army, not a hit and run band.&#8221; A report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency attributes half of the world’s cocaine supply to Columbia’s FARC, the largest, oldest and most murderous terrorist group in our Hemisphere, whose murder toll dwarfs that of Al Qaeda and the Taliban <i>combined</i> and includes many murdered U.S. citizens. Yes, this same drug-running FARC thanks Fidel Castro for their immense fame and fortune.</p>
<p>&#8220;We lived like kings in Cuba,&#8221; revealed Medellin drug Cartel bosses Carlos Lehder and Alejandro Bernal during their trials in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">&#8220;Fidel made sure nobody bothered us.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Venezuela’s oil windfall (the nation supposedly sits atop the largest oil reserves on earth) also helps the area’s election-rigging and vote-buying by allied parties and essentially keeps Cuba afloat financially.  Alas, Venezuela’s “21st Century Socialism” is having the predictable effects on oil production. Remember Reagan’s old joke about a sand shortage if socialists controlled the Sahara dessert? Well the same punch line is playing out real-time in socialist Venezuela with oil.  Venezuela’s oil exports to the U.S. dropped from $41.9 billion in 2011 to $30.8 billion in 2013, for instance.</p>
<p>So now many <i>Chavista</i> officials are “wetting their beaks” (in the famous phrase of Don Fanucci in The Godfather) from the narco-trafficking windfall that links Venezuelan officialdom with neighboring Colombia’s FARC and with El Salvador’s FMLF. These latter sit strategically on the main route for FARC/Venezuelan drugs to the U.S. market.</p>
<p>In the &#8217;80s the drug-trafficking route often went from Colombia straight across the Caribbean to Florida, with Cuba as a way station and toll-booth. &#8220;The case we have against Fidel and Raul Castro right now is much stronger than the one we had against Manuel Noriega in 1988,&#8221; a federal prosecutor in south Florida told the Miami Herald in 1996. Four grand juries at the time had disclosed Cuba&#8217;s role in drug smuggling into the U.S. The Clinton administration, hellbent on cozying up to Castro at the time, refused to press ahead with the case against the Castro brothers&#8217; dope trafficking.</p>
<p>Now the main route takes the Colombian-Venezuelan drugs through Central America and Mexico, and eventually across the southwest U.S. border, usually with the help of the FMLF and their Mexican gang allies. Our Southern Command headquartered in Panama does its best to stop them before they reach Mexico but given its status as the red-headed stepchild of U.S. overseas commands it can’t do much.</p>
<p>“Because of asset shortfalls [i.e. Defense budgets cuts],” admitted South-Com commander Marine Gen. John Kelly to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, “we’re unable to get after 74 percent of suspected maritime drug smuggling. <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/03/17/southcom-pushes-for-more-anti-drug-ships.html">I simply sit and watch it go by.”</a></p>
<p>Sanchez-Ceren’s “electoral” victory will not make General Kelly’s job any easier.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/venezuela.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-220728" alt="venezuela" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/venezuela.png" width="319" height="247" /></a>Famous foe of imperialism Oliver Stone just premiered his documentary <i>“Mi Amigo </i><em>Hugo</em><i>”</i> <i>(“</i><em>My Friend Hugo</em><i>”) </i>in the Cuban colony of Venezuela<i>. </i>As the title suggests, the film honors Hugo Chavez, Cuba’s late Venezuelan viceroy. The film was released amidst lavish celebrations on the first anniversary of Chavez’s death and broadcast on the Cuba-run TV channel of the Cuban viceroyalty of Venezuela. For the occasion, Raul Castro himself graced his South American dominion with a visit.</p>
<p>“Venezuela today is a country that is practically occupied by the henchmen of two international criminals, Cuba&#8217;s Castro brothers,” recently declared Luis Miquilena<b> </b>who served as<b> </b>Hugo Chavez’ Minister of Justice for three years before finally resigning in disgust. “They (the Cubans) have introduced in Venezuela a true army of occupation. The Cubans run the maritime ports, airports, communications, the most essential issues in Venezuela. We are in the hands of a foreign country. <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/03/chavez-mentor-venezuela-has-been.html">This is the darkest period in our history.”</a></p>
<p>The Chavez documentary comes twelve years after the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival of Oliver Stone’s documentary <i>“Comandante,”</i> which honored Venezuela’s foreign emperor himself:  Fidel Castro.</p>
<p>&#8221;I am like a prisoner,&#8221; Castro laments to Stone near the beginning of “<i>Comandante.</i>” The Stalinist dictator was referring to the travails that accompany his selfless vocation of running Cuba.  “This is my cell,&#8221; he sighs while pointing around.  At this declaration from the jailer of more political prisoner per-capita than Stalin, the famously “edgy” Oliver Stone reveals no hint of a smirk. And no snarkiness tinged his follow-up questions, most of which hovered right over home plate. When a few questions strayed from the banal talking points and Castro answered evasively, Stone twinkled that, “his elusiveness is always charming.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221;Fidel is magnetic and charismatic,&#8221; Stone concluded.  “He is a movie star.&#8221;</p>
<p>Alas, he’s getting a little long in the tooth for close-ups. So Stone has since shifted the focus of his camera lenses over to the more camera-friendly subject of Castro’s colony, Venezuela.</p>
<p>Nowadays the Cuba-enthroned emperor of Venezuela more or less reigns while his baby brother Raul rules. The actual nuts and bolts of running the empire, which include stealing 100,000 barrels of oil daily from their Venezuelan viceroyalty as priority, comes courtesy of the 50,000 Cubans who infest Venezuela and run the colony’s vital police and intelligence functions, among many others. It took the Castros some doing, but they finally got Venezuela in the bag. To wit:</p>
<p>Fidel Castro’s very first trip abroad as head of state was to Venezuela where on January 25, 1959 he implored Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt to “join” his “master plan <i>against</i> the gringos.” The newly elected Venezuelan president soon learned that his “joining” would consist of massive loans, financial aid, and shipments of free oil to Castro from Venezuela. So Betancourt brusquely declined the “invitation.” It took Hugo Chavez for Venezuela to finally “join” Castro’s master plan.</p>
<p>Please note the date and the aggressive anti-U.S. policy Castro proposed to Venezuela. That was only two weeks after Fidel Castro <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">(with U.S. help)</a> entered Havana. And yet you’ll be hard-pressed to find a U.S. “academic expert” who doesn’t swear up and down that in 1959-61 the U.S. arrogantly, selfishly and stupidly snubbed a friendly Fidel Castro and pushed him—kicking and screaming, no less&#8211; into the arms of the Russians.</p>
<p>As the title of Stone’s new film suggests, the filmmaker does not hide his veneration for Cuban satrap Hugo Chavez any more than he did for his mass-murdering, war-mongering colonial master Fidel Castro. This makes Stone’s propaganda films for Latin American communists less effective than those of his fellow filmmaker Robert Redford, who with his Motorcycle Diaries performed services for the image of Che Guevara that no Madison Avenue agency could hope to match for a client. To compare Stone to Redford simply compare Julius Streicher to Leni Riefensthal.</p>
<p>Oliver Stone claims that the massive protests currently rocking Venezuela are simply the CIA’s handiwork, with a few Venezuelans in the role of local patsies. Given all the hidden hands and plotters and “patsies” in Stone’s movie JFK, we can barely wait to see what a tangled web Stone will eventually weave regarding the current Venezuelan crisis.</p>
<p>Three weeks before departing for Venezuela to premier his communist infomercial Oliver Stone was among the honored speakers at the recent “2014 International Students for Liberty Conference.”  The crowd at this Libertarian-Palooza, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/oliver-stone-and-the-libertarians-215632840.html">according to some accounts</a>, was absolutely mitten with a man who devotes much of his time and fortune to glorifying dictators who abolish private property and murder entrepreneurs. Apparently these aren’t your father’s libertarians.</p>
<p>The only fuddy-duddy scoffers were a handful of Latin American students with first-hand experience of the handiwork by the communists Stone exalts in speech, print and film. Funny how that works.</p>
<p>Stone’s advocacy and infomercials for Castroism and Chavismo have brought him under fire recently in social media. But he’s been quick to fire back. “You (critics) remind me of crazy Tea Partiers!” he recently snarled on his Facebook page.  More horribly still his critics are: “Similar to the right-wing Florida Cuban exiles who’ve helped keep the US in a dungeon of ignorance.”</p>
<p>Speaking of dungeons, ignorance and Cuban exiles.  Among these latter Stone can find the most and the longest suffering political prisoners in the modern history of the human race. This suffering came in torture-chambers and dungeons designed by his Stalinist idol <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">and his KGB-mentors</a>. Let’s hope Oliver Stone is merely ignorant of that.</p>
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		<title>A Carter Intervention in Venezuela</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/jimmy_carter_2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220098" alt="jimmy_carter_2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/jimmy_carter_2-443x350.jpg" width="310" height="245" /></a>Last week Jimmy Carter fired off letters to Venezuela’s fraudulent President Nicolas Maduro and to Venezuela’s defrauded Presidential candidate Enrique Capriles expressing “grave concern” regarding the political turmoil and bloodshed convulsing their nation. From his pulpit at Emory University’s Carter Center, the former U.S. president calls for “dialogue” among the embattled Venezuelan parties and offers to visit the troubled nation &#8212; but not as a formal “mediator.”</span></p>
<p>The news of Carter’s proposed Venezuela visit was only hours old when alarmed Venezuelan anti-socialists sent out an SOS: “Please, desist from your trip,” reads an open letter from Venezuelan blogger/journalist Daniel Duquenal. “You have absolutely no credibility in Venezuela…You have cursed us enough as it is. I can assure you that half of the country has no respect nor credibility for you and the other half (the Castroites) thinks you are a mere fool that they can use <a href="http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2014/02/open-letter-to-jimmy-carter-dont-you.html">and discard as needed.” </a></p>
<p>Venezuelan continues as a veritable battleground between hundreds of thousands of protestors and thousands of Cuban-trained government police and national guardsmen. Fifteen protestors have been shot dead, hundreds arrested and thousands injured. “I feel as if this were a war zone,” said one resident of the far-western city of San Cristobal, long known for it’s anti-Chavista activism.</p>
<p>Desperate to cow that area’s rebellious residents Maduro even sent some of his regime’s Russian-built Sukhoi warplanes to buzz (but not yet bomb) the area. “It doesn’t matter if it takes a month, two months, three months. We have to get rid of this government,” said one desperate protestor.</p>
<p>This is a very unequal battle. The protestors have overwhelming numbers on their side, but the Cuba-puppet regime has the guns, the planes, the tanks, the truncheons and the tear gas. Better still (for the Venezuelan regime) the hands-on tutelage of their repressive apparatus comes courtesy of a regime (Castro’s) that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s<i> </i>during the Great Terror, and murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler‘s murdered Germans during his <i>first six. </i>No “security specialists” in the Western Hemisphere can boast anything close to these credentials on their CV.</p>
<p>So like anyone else with stellar credentials Castro’s military and police advisors demand top price for their services. Last year Venezuelan subsidies to Cuba totaled $10 billion. That’s more than <i>double</i> what the Soviets used to send. No, Castro’s KGB-trained murderers and torturers will not work for peanuts.</p>
<p>Alas, Castro’s “security” assistance to Maduro’s regime has lately been revealed as more than strictly “advisory.” Venezuelan social media (the only type still functioning freely in this Cuban satrapy) is leaking out some tragi-comedies: <a href="https://yrj8p7qye6fzoz3aqjhp.r.worldssl.net/foto-tu-eres-venezolano-cantame-el-himno-nacional-le-decia-la-mujer-al-gnb-en-las-mercedes-esta-tarde/">“You’re not Venezuelan!”</a> yelled a demonstrator to a heavily armed national Guardsman. “Then sing the Venezuelan national anthem!” and of course the man in the Venezuelan Guardsman’s uniform could not.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter has a long and illustrious history of “mediation” in disputed Venezuelan elections, dating back to 1998. In every case his mediation served to legitimize the electoral fraud of Venezuela’s Castroites and socialists. In fact the international legitimacy of Maduro’s fraudulent presidency owes much to Carter himself.</p>
<p>“The voting part” of it was &#8220;free and fair,” declared Jimmy Carter after Maduro “won” the elections of April, 2013 shortly after Hugo’ Chavez death. “Venezuela probably has the <i>most excellent</i> voting system that I have ever known,” he concluded.  Maybe if Jimmy Carter spent less time watching Wayne’s World and more time listening to the Venezuelan opposition he’d know that election was blatantly stolen by Maduro.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter’s relationship with Venezuela’s current colonial overlords may explain his solicitude for the welfare of the Maduro regime. To wit:</p>
<p>“We greeted each other as old friends,” gushed Jimmy Carter regarding his most recent meeting with Fidel Castro in April 2011.</p>
<p>“In 2002, we received him warmly,” reciprocated Fidel. “Now, I reiterated to him our respect and esteem.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Jimmy Carter was the best of all U.S. Presidents,” gushed Fidel’s brother Raul while seeing his American guest off personally and jovially after those ultra-amiable meetings.</p>
<p>But Jimmy Carter’s affection for the Castros amounts to more than smiles, handshakes and love notes. On his most recent Cuban visit he appeared on Cuban TV to denounce the U.S. justice system and plead for the release of Cuban terrorist/spies (The Cuban Five) &#8212; a conviction by U.S. Federal juries upheld all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, by the way. The charges against Castro’s spies included</p>
<p>•Gathering intelligence against the Boca Chica Air Naval Station in Key West, the McDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Homestead, Fla.</p>
<p>•Compiling the names, home addresses and medical files of the U.S. Southern Command’s top officers, along with those of hundreds of officers stationed at Boca Chica.</p>
<p>•Infiltrating the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command.</p>
<p>•Sending letter bombs to Cuban-Americans.</p>
<p>•Spying on McDill Air Force Base, the U.S. armed forces’ worldwide headquarters for fighting “low-intensity” conflicts.</p>
<p>•Locating entry points into <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Florida for smuggling explosives.</a></p>
<p>&#8220;I believe that there is no reason to keep the Cuban Five imprisoned,” declared Jimmy Carter while being interviewed by a Communist apparatchik on Cuban TV. “I had the opportunity to meet the families of the five Cuban <i>patriots </i>[italics mine], with their wives and with their mothers&#8230;..I&#8217;m well aware of the shortcomings of the U.S. judicial system [but apparently not the Cuban] but hope that President Obama will grant their pardon. He knows my opinion on this matter, that the trial of the Cuban Five was very dubious, <a href="http://www.freethefive.org/updates/CubanMedia/CMCarterArleen33011.htm">that many norms were violated</a>.”</p>
<p>The man hailed as the “Elder Statesman” of America’s <i>majority</i> political party insulted the judicial system of the nation that elected him President while hosted by a regime that imported its judicial system—lock, stock and barrel—<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">from the heirs of Joe Stalin.</a></p>
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