Endnotes
Preface: The Connections You Don’t See
1 Georgie Ann Geyer,
Guerrilla Prince, Little Brown, 1991, p. 171
2 Antonio Rafael De la Cova,
The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution, University of South Carolina Press, p. 239
3 Castro Speech Data Base, Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas at Austin
5 Humberto Fontova,
Exposing the Real Che Guevara, Sentinel, 2007, p. 70
6 Carlos Alberto Montaner, “Castro and the JFK Assassination,”
The Miami Herald, May 28, 2012
7 Kenneth Timmerman, “More Cuban Spies Lurking In U.S.,”
Newsmax, May 19, 2007
8 Yuri Bezmenov, interview with Edward Griffin,
American Media, 1984
9 Nicholas Horrock, “FBI Asserts Cuba Aided Weathermen,”
The New York Times, October 9, 1977
10 Chris Simmons, “The Communist Roots of a ‘Cuba Expert,’” Cuba Confidential weblog, May 24, 2012
11 Dinita Smith, “No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives: In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen,”
The New York Times, September 11, 2001
12 Larry Grathwohl, interview with the author
1. The Golden Anniversary: A Half-Century of Loyal Service
1 Trevor Armbrister, “Fawning Over Fidel,”
Reader’s Digest, May 1996
2 Andrew Malcom, “Fidel Castro to Congressional Black Caucus members: ‘How can we help President Obama?’”
Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2009
3 Humberto Fontova, “Jimmy Carter Does Havana,”
The Washington Times, April 6, 2011
4 Rana Foroohar, “How We Ranked the World,”
Newsweek, August 10, 2010
5 Frances Robles, “Castro’s Victims,”
The Miami Herald, December 31, 2007
2. Communist Omelet: The Unreported Cost in Life and Treasure
1 “Historians Have Absolved Fidel Castro,”
Newsmax.com, August 15, 2006
2 Eusebio Penalver, interview with the author
3 Irvine, “Mandela Mania,” Accuracy in Media, July 1990
4 Juan Tamayo, “Suicide Epidemic Exists Under Castro,”
The Miami Herald, June 18, 1998
5 Ninoska Perez Castellon, “Serenading a Wicked Friend,”
The Miami Herald, February 21, 2002
6 Andres Suarez,
Cuba, Castroism and Communism, 1959-1966, MIT Press, 1967
8 Alberto Bustamante, “Notas y Estadisticas Sobre Los Grupos Etnicos en Cuba,”
Revista Herencia, Volume 10, 2004
9 Mario Lazo,
Dagger in the Heart; American Policy Failures in Cuba, Funk &Wagnalls, 1968
10 Andres Suarez,
Cuba, Castroism and Communism, 1959-1966, MIT Press, 1967
11 Jeffrey Goldberg, “America’s Absurd and Self-Defeating Cuba Policy,”
The Atlantic, September 16, 2010
12 Pablo Neruda, “Saludo a Batista,”
El Siglo, November 27, 1944
13 Lorraine Lees,
Keeping Tito Afloat: The United States, Yugoslavia, and the Cold War, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997
14 Julio Alvarado,
La Aventura Cubana, Artes Graficas y Ediciones, 1977
3. The “World’s Luckiest People,” or So Says Newsweek
1 Javier Barroso, “Un Joven Muere en el Tren de Aterrizaje de un Vuelo de Cuba,”
El Pais (Madrid), July 14, 2011
2 Wilfredo Cancio Isla, “Solo Dos Cubanos Han Logrado Sobrevivir a Fugas Clandestinas en Aviones Desde la Isla,”
cafefuerte.com, July 13, 2011
3 Christopher Marquis and David Hancock, “U.S. Rips Extreme Cruelty, Protests 3 Killings Near Base,”
The Miami Herald, July 7, 1993
4 Juan Tamayo, “Suicide Epidemic Exists Under Castro,”
The Miami Herald, June 18, 1998
5 Mario Lazo,
Dagger in the Heart; American Policy Failures in Cuba, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968, p. 397
6 Arturo Cobo, interview with the author
7 Granma, July 6, 1989; see also Enrique Encinosa,
Unvanquished: Cuba’s Resistance to Fidel Castro, Pureplay Press, 2004.
8 Maria Werlau & Armando Lago, Cuba Archive Truth and Memory Project
9 Ronald Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola, Close Up: The Making of His Movies, Thunder Mouth Press, 1993, p. 530
4. Here Come the Sharks. Where’s the Discovery Channel?
1 Matt Lawrence, interview with the author
2 Diana Nyad, “Sharks Need Our Help,” CNN, July 28, 2011
3 Diana Nyad, “Cuba on Independence Day,”
The Huffington Post, July 5, 2012
4 Timothy Smith, “Cuban Aims for Big Escapes in Ring,”
The New York Times, May 28, 1998
5. The Discovery Channel Spins the Missile Crisis
1 Sergei Khrushchev, “How My Father and President Kennedy Saved The World: The Cuban Missile Crisis as Seen From the Kremlin,”
American Heritage, October 2002
2 Che Guevara to Sam Russell,
London Daily Worker, November 1962
4 Elliott Abrams to Antonio De la Cova, May 27, 1993
6. Castro’s Running-Dogs: Herbert Matthews and The New York Times
1 Anthony DePalma,
The Man Who Invented Fidel, Perseus Book Group. 2006, pp 74-75
2 Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty Sixth Congress, Second Session, Part 9, August 27, 30, 1960
3 Manuel Marquez-Sterling, interview with the author
4 Bohemia magazine, Havana, February 27, 1957
6 Oscar Yanes,
Pura Pantalla, Planeta, 2000
7 Anthony DePalma, Op. cit. p. 158
8 Julio Lobo, Commencement Speech to graduating class, Louisiana State University, 1963
9 Javier Arzuaga, Op. cit.
7. To Kill a Labor Leader: Manhunt in Buenos Aires
1 Carlos Bringuier, interview with the author
2 Enrique Ros,
Che: Mito y Realidad, Ediciones Universal, 2002, p. 189
3 Rufo Lopez Fresquet,
My Fourteen Months With Castro, World Publishing Company, 1966
4 Harry Truman,
The Washington Post, July 31, 1959
5 Dwight Eisenhower, presidential press conference, July 15, 1959
6 Anthony DePalma,
The Man Who Invented Fidel, Perseus Book Group, 2006, p. 178
7 U.S. Department of State,
Bulletin, Volume XLVII, No. 1213, September 24, 1962
8 Roger Hilsman,
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Struggle Over Policy. Praeger, 1996, p. 39
9 Michael Beschloss,
The Crisis
Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-63, Harper Collins, 1991, p. 27
10 Anthony DePalma, Op. cit. p. 175
8. Papa Hemingway Admires Death in the Cuban Afternoon
1 Anthony DePalma,
The Man Who Invented Fidel, Perseus Book Group, 2006, p. 198
2 Humberto Fontova,
Exposing the Real Che Guevara,Sentinel, 2007, p. 31
3 James Scott Linville,
Shooting Script, Standpoint Magazine, January 2009
9. Castro’s “Revolution of Youth”—Imprisoning the Young
1 Anthony DePalma,
The Man Who Invented Fidel, Perseus Book Group, 2006, p. 201
2 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
A Thousand Days, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002, p. 220
3 Daniel James,
Che Guevara: A Biography, Stein & Day, 1969, p. 276
4 Jon Lee Anderson,
Che: A Revolutionary Life, Grove Press, 1997, p. 617
5 Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, interviews with the author
6 Association of ex-Cuban Political Prisoners, interviews with the author
8 Leo Sauvage,
Che Guevara, The Failure of a Revolutionary, Prentice Hall, 1973, p. 126
9 Letter from Paquito D‘Rivera to Kris Kristofferson and Stephen Stills, Latin American Studies, May 21, 2005
10 Dave Zimmer,
Crosby Stills and Nash: The Biography, Da Capo Press, 2008, p. 209
12 Canek Sanchez Guevara,
Revista Proceso, October 2004
10. Jon Stewart to Don Fidel: Thank You, Godfather
3 Julio Alvarado,
La Aventura Cubana, Artes Graficas y Ediciones, 1977. pp. 794-95. Julio Alvarado was a Bolivian-born economist who served as an executive for Cuba’s National Bank from 1948 to 1959. Like most of his colleagues he was adamantly anti-Batista; but the barrage of Castroite propaganda regarding economic conditions in pre-Castro Cuba inspired him to compile this 885-page statistical book in order to set the record straight.
5 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce,
Investment in Cuba: Basic information for United States Businessmen, 1956
7 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Op. cit.
8 Statement by the President on United States Commitment to Open Investment Policy, The White House Office of the Press Secretary, June 20, 2011
9 Carlos Alberto Montaner,
Fidel Castro y La Revolucion Cubana, Piscataway, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 1984
10 Kirby Smith and Hugo Llorens, “Renaissance and Decay: A Comparison of Socioeconomic Indicators in Pre-Castro Cuba and Current-Day Cuba,” The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), August 1998
11 Mario Lazo,
Dagger in the Heart: American Policy Failures in Cuba, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968
14 Julio Alvarado, Op. cit.
17 Ileana Fuentes, “De Casa Marina a Casa Mariela,”
Diario de Cuba, August 11, 2011
20 Eusebio Penalver, interview with the author
21 One of the delegates exclaimed: “Castro is a very engaging, down-to-earth and kind man, someone I would favor as a neighbor!”
11. Not Your Father’s Hit-Men: Gangsters in Cuba Today
1 Humberto Fontova,
Fidel; Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
3 Frederick Tempe,
Divorcing the Dictator: America’s BungledAffair with Noriega, Putnam, 1990, p. 192
5 Tim Weiner, “Bay of Pigs Enemies Finally Sit Down Together,”
The New York Times, March 23, 2001
6 Georgie Ann Geyer,
Guerrilla Prince, Little Brown & Co. 1991, p. 240
7 T. Smith,
The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution, Random House, 1962, pp. 30–52
9 Alba Escobar and Nelson Rubio, “Programa Actualidad,” October 24, 2011
10 Karla Zabludovsky, “Police Find 49 Bodies by a Highway in Mexico,”
The New York Times, May 13, 2012
11 “No end to violence in Mexico, experts say,” FoxNews Latino, May 15, 2012
12 Jess Hill and George Grayson, “Fears Mexican drug gan spreading to other countries,” ABC Radio, February 11, 2011
13 FoxNews Latino, Op. cit.
14 “Mexico investigates massacre of 72 illegal immigrants,” Associated Press, August 26, 2010
15 Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,”
The Washington Times, April 19, 2011
16 Juan Tamayo, “Alarma por creciente influencia de Cuba en Cancun,”
El Nuevo Herald, June 27, 2010
18 “Relacionan a Niurka con tráfico de ilegales,” Servicios Informativos y Publicitarios del Sureste (SIPSE), June 7, 2010
20 Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,”
The Washington, Times, April 19, 2011
21 Menachem Gantz, “Hezbollah Opens Base in Cuba,” Ynet News, September 9, 2011
22 Michael Ware, “Los
Zetas called Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel,” CNN, August 6, 2009
23 “Napolitano: Border security better than ever,” CBS News, March 25, 2011
24 Mary Ellen Resendez, ABC 15 News, June 14, 2010
25 KVOA News, “Bureau of Land Management warns motorists who travel along 1-8,” June 16, 2010
27 Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,”
The Washington,
Times, April 19, 2011
28 Ed Vulliamy
, Amexica; War Along the Borderline, Bodley Head, 2010
29 Marc Lacey, “Escalating drug violence traumatizes Mexico’s children,”
The New York Times, October 21, 2008
30 Vera Chan, “Big Story: Mexico’s six-year drug war behind the Mother’s Day massacre,”
Yahoo News, May 15, 2012
32 Jess Hill & George Grayson, “Fears Mexican drug gang spreading to other countries,” ABC Radio, February 11, 2011
12. How Barack Obama Tried to Lose Honduras to the Dictators
1 Humberto Fontova,
Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005, p. 50
2 “Los tentaculos de las Farc en Venezuela,”
El Espectador, May, 8, 2010
3 Catherine E. Shoichet, “One word with many meanings translates into sports controversy,” CNN, November 17, 2011
4 President Roberto Micheletti, interview with the author
5 “The Refuseniks of Cuba,” May 20, 2012
6 Cliff Kincaid, interviewwith the author
7 “Cuba Dissident Released from Jail after Alleged Beating, Rubio Says,” FoxNews Latino, June 14, 2012
13. Keep Your Pants On, Stephen Colbert. Che Wasn’t That Hot
1 “Benicio Del Toro, ‘Latino Brad Pitt’, wins Cannes award as ‘Che’,” Agence France-Presse (AFP), May 25, 2008
2 Simon Hattenstone, “Dammit, this guy is cool”,
The Guardian, November 28, 2008
3 “Havana Hails ‘Che’ and Benicio Del Toro’s Performance,”
Latin American Herald Tribune, December 8, 2008
5 CNN Entertainment, January 1, 2009
6 Paul Bethel,
The Losers: The Definitive Report, by an Eyewitness, of the Communist Conquest of Cuba and the Soviet
Penetration in Latin America, Arlington House, 1969, p. 51
7 Nestor Carbonell,
And the Russians
Stayed: The Sovietization of Cuba, Morrow, 1989
8 Castro Speech Database, Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas at Austin
9 Humberto Fontova,
Exposing the Real Che Guevara, Sentinel, 2007
11 Felix Rodriguez, interview with the author
12 Roberto Martin-Perez, interviewwith the author
14 Fursenko and Timothy Naftali,
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Norton, 1998, p. 87
15 Miguel Sanchez in interview with Oscar Haza, “A Mano Limpia,” America TeVe, October 27, 2009
17 Javier Arzuaga,
Confesiones de un sacerdote, El Veraz, 2006
18 Dariusz Tolczyk,
See No Evil, Yale University Press, 1999
19 Humberto Fontova,
Fidel; Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
14. Sickos! The Cuban Health-Care Hoax, Directed by Michael Moore
1 Juan Tamayo, “Coverage comes with price of self-censorship,”
The Miami Herald, February 28, 2010
2 Humberto Fontova,
Fidel; Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
3 Rene Rodriguez, “Cuban healthcare is painted rosy in ‘Sicko,’ critics say,”
The Miami Herald, June 23, 2007
4 The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 1999
5 Gonzalo Guimaraens, “Vacuna Cubana Contra la Menningitis Ineficacia Comprobada,”
Revista Guaracabuya, July 2000
6 Katherine Hirschfeld,
Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898, Transaction Publishers, 2006
8 “Megaphone for a Dictator: CNN’s Coverage of Fidel Castro’s Cuba,” Media Research Center, May 9, 2002
10 Melisa Scott, “Healthy in Cuba, Sick in America?” ABC News, September 7, 2007
11 “Medical Journal Exposes Cuba’s Failed Doctor Diplomacy,” Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, October 2000
13 Lynn Davidson, “Did CNN Instruct Reporters to Sanitize Coverage of Fidel Castro?”
Newsbusters, February 20, 2008
15. The Cuban “Embargo”—Are You Kidding?
1 Humberto Fontova, Fidel;
Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant, Regnery, 2005
2 Julio Alvarado,
La Aventura Cubana, Madrid, Artes Graficas y Ediciones, 1977
5 Nick Miroff , “U.S. Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are Eased,” NPR, February 6, 2012
6 “U.S. food sales to Cuba continued decline in 2011,” Reuters, February 22, 2012
7 Pascal Fletcher, “Cuba will not accept ‘IMF-imposed’ debt solution,” Reuters, July 7 1999
8 “Statement issued by Geordin Hill Lewis, DA, Shadow Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa,” Politics Web, February 6, 2012
9 Juan Tamayo, “WikiLeaks: Even China complained Cuba wasn’t paying its bills,”
The Miami Herald, December 10, 2010
11 Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba, May 24, 2000
12 “Defector Warns of Social Explosion in Cuba,”
The Washington,
Post, August 13, 2002
13 Nestor Carbonell,
And the Russians Stayed; The Sovietization of Cuba, William Morrow & Co., 1989
14 Department of State,
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-63, Volume X, Cuba
15 Daryl Lembke, “Cuban Spy Link to Ford, Reagan Death Plot Probed,”
Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1976
16 “Clinton Receptive to Castro Overture to Discuss ‘Everything,’” Fox News, April 17, 2009
17 Jose Azel, “Cuba’s Internet Repression Equals Groupthink,”
The Miami Herald, February 27, 2011
18 “Cuba’s communist secret agent betrays the Grand Lodge of Cuba,”
Masonic Times, April, 2, 2011
19 Soviet Archives of Vladimir Bukovsky
20 Paul Haven, “Cuba finds American guilty of crimes against the state,” Associated Press, March 12, 2011
21 Humberto Fontova, “Why we remain resolute against traveling to Cuba,”
The Miami Herald, March, 10, 2012
22 Sean Reilly, “Analyst’s switch stirs tanker talk,”
Mobile Press-Register, June 9, 2008
16. “Agents of Influence”—Castro’s Ladies and Men in the U.S. Media
1 George Gedda, “Official: Cuba May Help Rogue States With Biological Expertise,” Associated Press, May, 6, 2002
2 Joel Brenner, “Strategic Counterintelligence,” American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, March 29, 2007
3 “Huye a Miami Alcibiades Hidalgo, ex embajador de Cuba en la ONU,”
ABC (Madrid), June 28, 2002
4 Armando Valladares, “Their men in higher ed,”
The Washington, Times, June, 18, 2009
6 Alfonso Chardy, “Spy Catcher claims four are agents for Cuba,”
The Miami Herald, August, 8, 2008
9 Col. Simmons, interview with the author
11 Humberto Fontova, “Obama’s Lovefest with Cold War Foe,”
The Washington Times, May 12, 2012
12 Jeff Jacoby, “Castro’s Cheerleaders,”
The Boston Globe, May 8, 2003
17. Barbara Walters, Charmed by the Hemisphere’s Top Torturer of Women
1 Barbara Walters, “An Interview with Fidel Castro,”
Foreign Policy, September 1977
3 Barbara Walters, interview with Fidel Castro, “ABC 20/20,” October 11, 2002
4 Ana Rodriguez and Glenn Garvin,
Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women’s Prison, St Martin’s Press, 1995
6 Mignon Medrano,
Todo lo dieron por Cuba, Fundacion Nacional Cubano Americana, 1995
8 Beth Reinhard, “McCain: Keep Cuba embargo in place,”
The Miami Herald, May 20, 2008
9 Roberto Martin-Perez, interview with the author
11 Walters,
Foreign Policy, Op. cit.
18. Dan Rather on Castro: “This Is Cuba’s Elvis!”
1 Edward Murrow, “See it Now,” CBS, February 6, 1959
2 Pedro Porro, interview with the author
4 “The Gardens of the Queen,” CBS, December 18, 2011