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The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro Hardcover – June 4, 2013

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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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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books; 1st US edition (June 4, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594036675
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594036675
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.22 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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R. Lantz

The Real Truth About The Media's Creation and Love Affair With Castro and Cuba

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2019

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Amazing book! Never knew all this about Castro or his Che buddy! Can't believe the horrors that the Cuban people continue to live under with these insane Castros in control of this beautiful little island. Thanks so much to the author for showing what our Media has done to cover over the horrors of the secret police, the disappearance of dissenters and the torture of political prisoners, including young girls, women, and old ladies locked in cells with no windows and tortured just for the "fun" of it by hideous guards! Never will I forget the story of the 14 year old orphan tortured because she was raised in a catholic nunnery and went to a catholic school. This horror is still going on today!

A must read for anyone who is seeking the real truth about Cuba and the Castros!

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Thomas

Not the party line.....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 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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Sandra P.

MUST READ, FULLY CITED AND ACCURATE

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2021

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A must read for those that are ignorant to the reality of Castros Cuba. The Black Caucus and Mikey Moore should read this book before taking their next Junket to Cuba and singing the regimes Praises.

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Laurence Daley

Horrors too difficult to remember, too horrible to forget

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 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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AFru

Fidel's Communism Exposed!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 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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Mare

Very interesting!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2017

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After listening to the glowing tales of people who've spent a week in Cuba, this books confirms the suspicions I've had. They are partaking in propaganda for political purposes. I was actually told by someone who'd gone on a 'tour' of Cuba that, "it's Important we don't vote for Republicans because they will reinstate the embargo and that will hurt the Cuban People". This book confirms my suspicions and it shows how the situation is actually far worse. I highly recommend the book - Fontova speaks plainly - easy to understand - fast read.

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Rock10

Great detail of the media's defense of Castro

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 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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Grandma Moses

The Unvarnished Truth about Castro's Cuba

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2014

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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. into thinking that Cuba is a paradise that must be saved from the heavy hand of the U.S. Government. The book is an alternative view from what is often presented by MSM and Hollywood and misguided politicians written by a former Cuban who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 6, but who gives an insider view of life under Castro.

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