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Fidel exposes the hypocrisy of Castro's liberal fan club, delivering the brutal truth about the tyrant the Fidelistas call the first and greatest hero to appear in the world.

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"Cuba’s own Elvis"—that’s what Dan Rather calls him. Funny name for a man who has threatened the United States with nuclear war, who has made common cause with Islamic terrorists against the United States, and whose people risk death to escape him. But there’s a lot that Hollywood liberals and other Fidel Castro admirers would rather you didn’t know about the dictator of Cuba—like how he imprisoned more people as a percentage of population than Hitler or Stalin; how Fidel’s firing squads killed thousands of Cubans; how Fidel’s subjects would rather inject themselves with AIDS than live under his tyranny. Drawing on a wealth of research—including interviews with former Castro regime officials, anti-Castro freedom fighters, and Castro’s political prisoners—acclaimed author Humberto Fontova reveals the ugly face of the Castro regime. Along the way, he punctures some of the egregious myths about Cuba: · The Motorcycle Bore: The real Che Guevara—not the rebel rock star of T-shirt fame, but a battlefield incompetent, a puritan-Stalinist bore, and the man who sent thousands of innocent Cubans to the firing squads · Communist Economics 101: How Castro took Cuba from being a First World economy that had to turn away European emigrants to a country that even impoverished Haitians won’t emigrate to, with among the highest suicide and abortion rates in the world · The Saddam Hussein Next Door: How Castro has not only had nuclear weapons (and wanted to launch them) but has plotted massive terrorist outrages against the United States · Fidel the anti-black racist and unrepentant Communist—and his long list of useful idiots: from Jesse Jackson to Oliver Stone, George McGovern to Ted Turner, Bill Clinton to Steven Spielberg, to Katie Couric and many others · The Left’s favorite racism: against conservative Cuban-Americans

Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant is a stunning exposé of the real Fidel Castro and of the hypocrisy, ignorance, and inexcusable appeasement that makes his liberal admirers notorious.

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.; 1st Printing edition (April 25, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0895260433
ISBN-13: 978-0895260437
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book will help you understand Castro's brutality, March 15, 2005

By	Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

The story of Fidel Castro and the policy of the US towards his rule of Cuba is a very strange one. There are a huge number of people on the left who should be opposing such a brutal dictator, except that he is supposedly a socialist / communist and providing for "all the people" rather than a few millionaire exploiters. Of course, that is not true, but the fawning goes on nonetheless.

Instead, the people who have fled Castro's brutal tyranny are denounced. They are inconvenient to a liberal agenda that wants to believe that Castro's brand of socialism works. So, these refugees are ignored as much as possible, mischaracterized as rich exploiters who only want to get back properties they had long ago stolen "from the people". What nonsense! For every well to do refugee, there are thousands with nothing who fled for a chance at freedom. It is not an accident that so many Cuban refugees have done well in this country. They wanted to be free and have taken full advantage of what freedom offers to those who work diligently.

This useful book by Humberto Fontova, a child of the Cuban exile, is a cry of the heart. It gives passionate voice to those heroes who were tortured and murdered by Fidel and Che. He rails against the "useful idiots" who end up sustaining Castro's brutality. He cites so many of our politicians who find this whole Cuban episode so inconvenient and who want it to simply go away. These politicians and media elites denounce the exile community and try to discredit their voice in order to undermine its powerful political effect.

Mr. Fontova makes clear the agony this community has faced in fleeing Cuba, their pride in their success in America, and their frustration with those who either wittingly or unwittingly help prop up Castro's vicious regime. Does their hurt and passion take them too far? Maybe. The author believes in the Castro conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Who knows? I know that nearly every other voice in America is given its say to promote "diversity" no matter how deleterious their prescriptions for our country. We should hear these people as well and then make our judgment. I think this book is a good corrective for the way this community's voice has been ignored and mischaracterized in the mass media.

It is better, I think, to hear the voices directly rather than characterized in an unsympathetic press. So, give this book a read and take part in our national debate over our Cuba policy from a more fully informed stance.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Who protects the tyrant next door?, March 20, 2005

By	T. F. Novak (Cumming, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Cuban born, and cajun-raised, author Humberto Fontova has driven a stake into the black heart of American Leftism with this expose of Hollywood and the U.S. State Department's poster-boy of failed marxism - Fidel Castro. This book has been written for all of us Joe Sixpacks in the United States, who don't understand how it can be that this purely evil, murderous dictator can openly operate a gangster-state ninety miles from NAS Key West with impunity. In this book, Humberto Fontova is telling us exactly why Fidel is still in power... without the continuous unwavering support of two generations of elites in American popular culture, American academia and American government, Mr. Castro would surely be hanging from a lamp post in Havana tomorrow, as he deserves.

If you've ever wondered why those stubborn, revanchist, conservative cuban-americans in Miami are so outraged at the U.S. governments bizarre "Cuba-policy" and it's failed "embargo" and are always so out of step with all the other "hispanics" in the U.S.; why they fought so fiercely to try to patriate Elian Gonzalez, why they work so hard, achieve so much as U.S. citizens and have successfully maintained their history, culture and values in the face of a full court press of political-correctness you'll find the answers in Fidel, Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant by Humberto Fontova. HINT: It's because Cuban-americans understand Fidel Castro.

Get this astonishingly well-written and eye-opening book and you too will understand who it is that keeps this tyrant Fidel in power - Hollywood Leftists.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Evil Fidel Castro, March 17, 2005

By	R. Wallace "Bob Wallace" (St. Louis, Mo USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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Castro tried to get Nikita Khrushchev to nuke several southern cities in the US in the early 1960's, including New Orleans and probably Baton Rouge. He incarcerates more people as a percentage of population than [...] or Stalin. He murdered 17,000 Cubans and (several dozen U.S. citizens) with firing squads and dumped their bullet-riddled bodies in mass graves. He has impoverished and brutalized Cuba to the point where 20 percent of its population risked their lives to flee. And prior to his glorious reign, Cuba took in more immigrants per capita than any country in the Western Hemisphere. More Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S., and Cuba even had to turn away European immigrants. Castro sent his agents to torture to death American POWs in North Vietnam's Cu Loc POW camp outside Hanoi in 1967. The list goes on and on, as it always does with tyrants. All of whom, I'll add, always call themselves benefactors. And this is a man cheered on by leftists everywhere, especially the nitwits in Hollywood?

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1.0 out of 5 stars incredibly biased read
This book is far too biased to take seriously. Too much in your face, but little in the way of actual facts and documention. Stay away from this one... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Sallie J. Wald

5.0 out of 5 stars Not all liberals are stupid
Just wanted to weigh in here as a liberal who also teaches Spanish.
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Published on September 8, 2007 by Isabel

5.0 out of 5 stars Ask a Cuban!
Back in the early 80's I was a stupid liberal who believed the propaganda in the media (agitprop) regarding Fidel being a "benevolent" dictator after reading a glowing book... Read more

Published on May 14, 2007 by Eliza Bennett

5.0 out of 5 stars Hooray for Humberto for having the guts to write this book
I love this book and cannot wait for Humberto's next book on Che. I find his information very well researched and reflective of his extensive and informed studies in Latin... Read more

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1.0 out of 5 stars Even more Miami lies
This author is incredibly biased and left Cuba when he was a child- too young to remember or understand anything. Read more

Published on February 25, 2007 by A. Hill

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly Written Hate Mongering
"Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant" is the kind of radical right-wing piece of hate speech so commonly published and rarely ever read or taken seriously except by radical... Read more

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Published on December 14, 2006 by C. C Chrappa

1.0 out of 5 stars Ranting and ranting
This is one of the few books which made me think that I should ask for my money back. Fontova touches on valid points but his selective history and his unbearably basic prose... Read more

Published on May 22, 2006 by A. Giray Ertas

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!
Humberto Fontova has done a wonderful job at exposing the truth about Fidel and his regime. For years, we have had to endure the Left's vacuous worship of Latin America's cruelest... Read more

Published on April 22, 2006 by Stacy C. Riding

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The absolute truth about the Castro revolution. Years of disinformation are exposed. The reason the Cuban revolution occurred was a desire of the Cuban people to restore... Read more

Published on April 20, 2006 by Henry Pollack

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