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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Encounter Books (June 4, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594036675
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594036675
  • Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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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.

Customer Reviews

Mr Fontova's latest book is excellent just like his previous books.
MP
I've read enough to know that Castro was evil, but this book goes into fascinating and horrifying detail.
Kerri K.
The western media does everything it can to cover up the myriad of concentration camps that is Cuba.
richard s

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful By Laurence Daley on June 27, 2013
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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 By Thomas T. Amlie on 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 By Jack G on August 23, 2013
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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 By MP on July 30, 2013
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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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful By Arthur on November 16, 2013
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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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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful By richard s on 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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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful By Rock10 on October 5, 2013
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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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful By Dr. Zoraida V. Cornejo on May 12, 2014
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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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