Humberto Fontova
Nearly four decades after his death, it’s impossible to avoid the image
of Ernesto “Che” Guevara everywhere from T-shirts to cartoons. Liberals
consider Che a revolutionary martyr who gave his life to help the poor of
Latin America. Time named him one of the one hundred most influential people
of the last century. And a major Hollywood movie is about to lionize him to
a new generation.
The reality, as we learn from Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, is that Che wasn’t really a gentle soul and a selfless hero. He was a violent Communist who thought nothing of firing a gun into the stomach of a woman six months pregnant whose only crime was that her family opposed him. And he was a hypocrite who lusted after material luxuries while cultivating his image as a man of the people.
Fontova reveals that Che openly talked about his desire to use nuclear weapons against New York City. Such was Che’s bloodthirsty hatred that Fontova considers him the godfather of modern terrorism.
Exposing the Real Che Guevara is based on scores of interviews with survivors of Che’s atrocities as well as the American CIA agent who interrogated Che just hours before the Bolivian government executed him.
About the Author
Humberto Fontova, who left Cuba in
1961 at age seven, has written for several conservative magazines and is the
author of Fidel:
Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant. He has appeared on many radio and
television shows and is active in the Cuban American community.*
"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.*
