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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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"Cubas own Elvis"thats 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 theres a lot that Hollywood liberals and other Fidel Castro admirers would rather you didnt know about the dictator of Cubalike how he imprisoned more people as a percentage of population than Hitler or Stalin; how Fidels firing squads killed thousands of Cubans; how Fidels subjects would rather inject themselves with AIDS than live under his tyranny. Drawing on a wealth of researchincluding interviews with former Castro regime officials, anti-Castro freedom fighters, and Castros political prisonersacclaimed 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 Guevaranot 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 wont 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 Communistand 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 Lefts favorite racism: against conservative Cuban-Americans

Fidel: Hollywoods 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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Publishing (February 25, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 229 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0895260433
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0895260437
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches

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The Real Fidel, the Real Che, the Real Cuba

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2005

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This book destroys the myths about communist Cuba:

- Life under Castro is better than it was under Bautista.

- 1950s Cuba was poorer and more repressive than Cuba today, and thus, it is necessary to have a dictator like Fidel.

- Fidel is a "revolutionary communist leader" who cares about his own poor.

- Fidel is an idealist who wants to help the Third World, and should be praised for "standing up to the U.S.".

- Che Guevara is an idealist, humanistic hero of guerilla wars, and should be looked up to.

- The Cuban Revolution helped the poor in Cuba

- Fidel made Cuba less racist.

- Left-wing Europeans and Americans are right to support Fidel in his "struggle" against the U.S.

- The embargo by the U.S. is wrong

The truth:

- 1950s Cuba was a fairer, more thriving society than modern Cuba, with more freedoms (sure, Bautista was repressive, but not as much as Fidel).

- Fidel and Co. killed 15,000 people who opposed them (mostly by firing .45 caliber handguns into their heads at close range).

- Fidel looked up to Adolf Hitler and modelled some of his writing on what Hitler had written ("History will absolve me").

- There have been 500,000 people (mostly poor, mostly black) in Cuba's Gulags

- Fidel's thugs regularly use torture on prisoners

- Che was an Argentine who personally sent 1,890 men to death - without trial, by firing squad. Che's office had a window where he could look out on the firing squads shooting men in the head with .45 handguns. One after another after another. Che once said, "we don't need evidence", and "we have to become cold-blooded killers".

- Fidel hated Che and sent him abroad on "missions" to get rid of him.

- Cuba's prisons contain 80 % black prisoners. The communist party is 0.08 % black. Thus, Cuba is a racist country (a U.S. "black panther" who hijacked a plane to Cuba in the 1970s and was ended up in Cuban prison, was brutally maltreated and lost the use of one eye as a result once said, "I would rather be a prisoner in the U.S. than "free" in Cuba).

- Fidel was involved in murder across borders (i.e., terrorism).

- Fidel pleaded with the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to fire nukes at the U.S.

- Despite receiving billions in aid from the USSR over 4 decades, today, the average Cuban gets less rations per day than the slaves in Cuba in 1840 !!

- Hollywood and the Left turn a blind eye to Cuba's human rights abuses, praising the dictator, Fidel. (whereas Chile's Pinochet - who the Left love to revile, had 5,000 people killed, Fidel and Co. had 15,000 people murdered, all without a fair trial, many with no trial at all).

I wish all the leftwingers in the U.S. and everywhere would read this book before talking about how Fidel is such a great "Third World leader", or putting on that Che Guavara t-shirt.

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Our intellectual superiors - movie stars and the media - tell us what to think of Fidel!! Yay!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2017

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Yes, thanks heavens those truth seeking members of the media like Dan Rather (fired for lying), can teach us the facts about Castro! Dan Rather, apparently while foaming at the mouth, said Fidel was 'Cuba's own Elvis!" (p 11). Not to be outdone in fawning behavior, Diane Sawyer wrapped her arms around Castro and kissed him! Way to show lack of bias, right?

Best of all is this nugget by what a certain Mr. Klavan calls 'the former newspaper the New York Times': "'Fidel Castro is not only not a communist...he's decidedly anti-Communist'" (p 45). The left knows the real truth behind the silly apparent truth!

The brilliant mind of Jack Nicholson intuited that Castro was "A genius!" (p 11).

Oliver Stoned babbled that Fidel was '"one of the world's wisest men!"

Chevy Chase pontificated that "Socialism works!" And if you're a movie star, virtue signaling the progressive take on things, no one is going to mention that slaves in 1842 had food rations about double that of the happy, happy populace of today.

Bonnie Raitt loved Castro and Cuba so much she wrote the song, 'Cuba is Way Too Cool' apparently in her best pigeon English.

Nobody asked Raitt to explain why all those citizens kept trying to flee Cuba. Or why the suicide rate in the island paradise of Cuba was double Latin America's average and triple Cuba's pre-Castro rate.

Steven Spielberg said of meeting Castro that it was the "most important 8 hours of my life".

And nobody asked him why Cuban Jews in Castro's island paradise had diminished in number from 15,000 to a measly 1,300.

Wow, hearing from the alcoholics, drug addicts, and depraved elite who constantly lecture the rest of America and tell us what to think!

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Hollywood: Castro's favorite ignorants

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2005

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I think that every Cuban should buy two copies of this book, one to read and keep, the other one to give it to somebody who still hasn't been informed correctly about Cuba-before and post Castro-This is a very useful book for those who came very little and didn't have to live the brutal truth or to those who like myself, grew up with the Revolution-I was 24 in 1990 when I came to The United States, but most of all, for the American people who are constantly being misinformed by the hypocrites and liars from Hollywood and the media. In this book all the "leaders" are finally and accurately called by their true definitions. They've been nothing but murders. They murdered lives and they murdered a culture, they even try to murder history, but books like this proves that They've been wrong, that you can't hide the facts forever. Someday you'll see T-shirts with the image of Ernesto Guevara-I refuse to call him "Che"- saying I WAS A MURDERER. There always going to be the "stupid" blind ones who would never admit the truth despite the facts, but is up to us, CUBANS, to outnumber them. This book is a testimony that that is possible. Humberto, Thank you for this book, I am sure that all the victims of Castros's communism feel the same way, specially those who sacrificed all.

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Armando P. Merino

Not only Hollywood but also the Black Caucus and mainstream media

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2013

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Just one example: Steven Spielberg stating that the best eight hours of his life were those spent with Fidel Castro. The man who directed "Schindler's List" can make that statement? He is either one of the top ten hypocrites in history, or just as bad, among the top "useful idiots" of his generation. Stories abound of Hollywood elites who go to enjoy the pleasures of Cuba while its people and once beautiful cities decay and rot. Cuba's apartheid is just as bad as South Africa's was, and yet, you don't hear Jesse Jackson and other black "leaders" say a word. Castro's misinformation apparatus won the hearts and filled the pockets of many in the film and media industry and the political arena. Cuba's patriots were abandoned and betrayed 52 years ago and Cuban freedom still is.

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Mr Rowan Murphy

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 7, 2017

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Ross

Excellent When He Focuses On The Facts.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2007

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It may seem like a misguided criticism given the title of the book, but the focus of dim Hollywood types who prostitute themselves to Castro gets rather tedious after. From the time of Leni Riefenstal dictators have found a steady supply of useful idiots from the film world to suck up to them so learning that Danny Glover or Oliver Stone aren't very bright isn't that interesting. The more highbrow apologists like the New York Times and Stephen Ambrose are more noteworthy but even so knowing that people in free countries get off on tyranny elsewhere is sadly not news.

What Fontova is much better at is remorselessly hammering home the facts and dealing with the bogus excuses offered by Castro apologists. The chapter on Castro before Cuba is a revelation, Cuba was essentially a developed country with a long democratic history and the best health and literacy results in the Americas. Batista was a thug but there was a vibrant democratic which was likely to unseat him in short order had it not been for Castro's coup. To turn that country into one of the poorest in the world where people escape in droves is in a perverse sort of way an astonishing accomplishment.

Sometimes the author does let his justified distaste for the Castro regime colour his prose on occasion but that is a minor fault in a book that is a long overdue corrective to the far left propaganda.

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