April 08, 2005

The Real Cuba

This site is an eye opener, even for those of us who aren't blinded to the reality that is Castro's Cuba.

The Real Cuba documents what's really going on, both in prose and in pictures. With web page names such as Cuba B.C., The Firing Squad, Castro's Gulag and The Millionaire Castro, you know you aren't in the Cuban paradise that Robert Redford, Stephen Spielberg and other Hollywood idjits have come to know and love.

Be sure to visit the Feedback page...you'll get an earful from the typical yahoo who believes in the Castro myth, but you'll love the response by the site editor. We don't know who the editor is...I'm sure he stays anonymous out of fear of retribution from Castro's bully boys.

And while we're on the subject of Cuba, read Barry Farber's review of the new book out by Humberto Fontova called Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant. A snippet:

Inside "Fidel" you'll meet ordinary Cubans suddenly converted into martyrs, who died against the wall yelling "Christ is King" and "Long Live Free Cuba!" before the bullets hit. You'll meet the Cuban patriots who landed at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961 and outfought the overwhelming numbers of Soviet-supplied communist troops even though they'd been cowardly abandoned by an American administration that suddenly chickened out and, in effect, said to the Cubans on the beach, "We may have brought you here, but we don't know you."

One of my co-workers came over from Cuba with her family when she was a child (she is now in her early 40s). I asked her once how she felt about the people in this country who revere Castro. She said, "People here have no idea what it's really like down there." If it's so great, why are so many Cubans risking their lives (both on the water and if they get sent back) to escape "paradise"?

Read the review, read the book (I'm going to), and definitely check out the website!

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