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The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro [Kindle Edition]

Humberto Fontova
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Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Alone among world leaders, Castro came to within inches of igniting a global nuclear holocaust.

But you would never guess any of that from reading the mainstream American media. Instead we hear fawning accounts of Castro liberating Cuba from the clutches of U.S. robber-barons and bestowing world-class healthcare and education on his downtrodden citizens. “Propaganda is vital—the heart of our struggle,” Castro wrote in 1955. Today, the concept is as valid to the Cuban regime as ever.

History records few propaganda campaigns as phenomenally successful or enduring as Castro and Che’s. The Longest Romance exposes the full scope of this deception; it documents the complicity of major U.S. media players in spreading Castro’s propaganda and in coloring the world’s view of his totalitarian regime. Castro’s cachet as a celebrity icon of anti-Americanism has always overshadowed his record as a warmonger, racist, sexist, Stalinist, and godfather of modern terrorism. The Longest Romance uncovers this shameful history and names its major accomplices.


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About the Author

Humberto Fontova was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954 and fled to the U.S. with his family in 1961. He is the author of four books and a frequent commentator in national media. He lives in New Orleans, LA.

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  • File Size: 470 KB
  • Print Length: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Encounter Books (August 13, 2013)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00DY0KTAO
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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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Horrors too difficult to remember, too horrible to forget

Fontova, Humberto 2013 The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro. Encounter Books, Perseus Books Group, Jackson, Tennessee ISBN-10 1594036675

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It has been more than fifty years since I left, as one of the lucky ones. And as I write and re-write my own memories I find it difficulty very difficult to forget the horrors, as Castro took a supposedly democratic revolution into totalitarianism. Humberto's new book, he has written many, starts with statistics of the harmed, the imprisoned and the dead. Each instance I know is true, each instance I wish to forget them.

How in the world do members of the press, the worldwide intellectual elite, those in government here, simply forget all that? Is that cupidity, is that stupidity, or the simple instinct to avoid unpleasantness, I have no answers.

However, I do know that they must wake up. They must...
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Not the party line..... August 7, 2013
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This book describes in great and disturbing detail the repressiveness, brutality, and horror of the Stalinist regime in Cuba, and the mixture of useful idiots and communists who have promoted Castro and his regime over the years. The book thoroughly debunks most of the myths surrounding the revolution and its aftermath. Most of the "useful idiots" in the media don't seem to realize that in an oppressive dictatorship like Cuba the media is only going to be shown the flattering aspects and told flattering stories.

On the downside, the writing, while crisp and engaging, suffers from a little too much repitition of certain key words and phrases. Perhaps it is good for effect, since you can't reinforce often enough just how brutal the regime is: how many people were executed without trial or proof, how many languished for decades in prisons for speaking out, the torture, the theft, the quashing of dissent, etc. A good book, but the writing could be a little better.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars SCARY August 23, 2013
By Jack G
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It is interesting yet disturbing and scary to find out how our press; past and present government and its agencies have misled the American public.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as always! July 30, 2013
By MP
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Mr Fontova's latest book is excellent just like his previous books. If you haven't read his other books about Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, you should do so right away. He uses facts to back his comments and destroys the myth of Che.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fidel's Communism Exposed!! November 16, 2013
By Arthur
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How can I "love" a book that exposes the truth about F. Castro's Communist regime and describes the horrors experienced by descenting cubans and their families? This is a story that must be told again and again until the free world understands the inhuman and destructive natures of a Communist regime whose heart-beat is kept alive through lieing, desception, threat, fear, and murder. The author, Humberto Fontava, is passionate in his expose of Che Guevara, the liberal media, and associated personalities that "danced" and in some cases slept with Fidel. Castro's disasterous experiment in Marxism-Communism is brought to vivid life and includes world repercussions supporting drug cartels that threaten central American countries, Mexico, and the US. This is a must read by freedom lovers of our world!!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great detail of the media's defense of Castro October 5, 2013
By Rock10
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This is the first book from Humberto Fontova that I've read. I hear him interviewed on the Barry Farber radio show. This book exposes the media's support for the Cuban Revolution, along with Celebrities including Ernest Hemingway. The connections mainstream media commentators who are considered Cuba experts are exposed as being connected to the regime by Humberto. Humberto also gives the readers a large amount of information who aren't familiar with the torture and removal of freedoms by the Castro regime. I recommend this book to learn about the Castro regime, and the truth about the media's defense of Castro.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars THE TRUTH ABOUT CUBA! November 7, 2013
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Humberto Fontova has joined Armando Valladares as the two great writers Cuba has produced since 1959. His books tell the truth about the Stalinist cesspool that Cuba has been since 1959. Every high school and college student should be required to read his books as well as Against All Hope by Mr. VALLADARES. The western media does everything it can to cover up the myriad of concentration camps that is Cuba. Thank God for Mr Fontova' s brilliant efforts to prevent this cover up from being total.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The book is very well written,reveals the true story of what Fidel called revolution, how he lied about his true purpose : to impose communism, destroy a beautiful country, make the Cuban people poor , hungry, destroy families and send anybody who did not agree with him to jails that looked more like hell on earth, and were treated worse than animals..
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read.
Great book..!!! It should be mandatory reading in all High Schools of this country, especially in Universities and Colleges.. ;)
Published 25 days ago by Tonny
1.0 out of 5 stars The man's not been in power for years now but ...
The man's not been in power for years now but Humberto Fontova is still finding time (and making money) writing about him.
Published 1 month ago by Catholic Boy
5.0 out of 5 stars The truth
Terrific book and oh so true
Published 4 months ago by mcs
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! I wish Barbara Walters and her friends could ...
Excellent! I wish Barbara Walters and her friends could read it. It proves that Castro and his kind excert a godly hold so many people.
Published 4 months ago by Louis Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Book: Well-Written and An Important Muckraker
I've read enough to know that Castro was evil, but this book goes into fascinating and horrifying detail. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Kerri K.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Unvarnished Truth about Castro's Cuba
This is a side of Cuba Hollywood doesn't tell. The book tells how Castro terrorized his people into submission. It tells how Castro schmoozed useful idiots from the U.S. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Grandma Moses
1.0 out of 5 stars Another Delusional Rant From Fontova
Humberto Fontova is the Latin version of Alan Dershowitz, a feverish crusader swinging a right-wing ax. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Robert Blake
3.0 out of 5 stars All true (and sad)
Author points out the history of media support for Castro and his rebels during the Cuban Revolution and up until today.
Published 12 months ago by charles weidner
4.0 out of 5 stars Shows Castro is a commie-killer of many tens of thousands of human...
This book is jam packed with info on how many tens of thousands Castro has had murdered since he took control of Cuba n 1959. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Man of truth
5.0 out of 5 stars Boy, he really calls out the Commies in the elite media
The book is quite a bit of fun where he points out the various liberal reporters who just can't help themselves in their love for Castro, as unbelievable as that may seem. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Celia J. Brown
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