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Exposing the Real Che Guevara

I have never understood the fervent idolatry of Che Guevara. For decades he has been held up as the poster child of revolution and freedom. Movies have been made about his exploits and his death, perpetuating the idea that he was a great hero of human freedom. I’ve always known him to be an ardent communist, and have recognized, as JFK did, that communism is one of the great evils of the 20th century.

Communist regimes have murdered at least 100 MILLION people since the Russian Revolution and the founding of the first Marxist state. Whether we are talking about the Soviet Union, Red China, Cambodia, North Korea, Vietnam or Cuba, it is the communists that have worked hard to subjugate man and annihilate freedom.

Humberto Fontova’s biography of the “legendary” Che in his new book, Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots That Idolize Him is a welcome treatise on Che, Castro and the Cuban Revolution that destroyed tens of thousands of lives and created the largest per capita refugee problem in history.

Fontova covers in incredible detail the life of Che Guevara, Castro, and the Cuban Revolution. He discusses what Cuba was like prior to the Revolution and the ouster of Batista and Freedom. Some facts I was unaware of concerning pre-Castro cuba: Cuban per capita income was nearly as high as the U.S. and significantly higher than much of Europe. There were long lines of Europeans waiting to immigrate to Cuba. Not only was Cuba a vacation hot spot for Americans, many Cubans went to the U.S. for their vacations. People used to risk their lives to escape Haiti to go to Cuba. After Castro and Che took control, not only do Haitians NOT flee from their native land to Cuba, hundreds of thousands of people have fled Cuba, risking their lives in the process, and many of these refugees died during their escape from the communist regime.

Che ran the execution mill at La Cabana where thousands of Cubans, men and boys, were executed and buried in mass graves. In Che’s Cuba, “suicide” became a euphemism for “shot while trying to escape,” when Cubans were murdered outside of the “judicial” system.

Fontova backs up his work with documentation and interviews of people who where there and knew Che Guevara. It is not the distilled propaganda turned out by the Moonbats who worship Che.

Fontova escaped from Cuba in 1961 at the age of 7 with his family. He details out how his father nearly didn’t make it out as he was arrested and dragged off at the gate. This was when people could still leave voluntarily by airplane, but with nothing more than the shirts on their backs.

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