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Faria: The 50th Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

April 17, 2011 commemorates the 50th anniversary of America’s disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. During 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower watched with trepidation the establishment of an authoritarian regime in Cuba unfriendly to the United States, only 90 miles from American shores, virtually in America’s own backyard. On assuming power in 1961, […]

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Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Fontova

This is a nice, short book, only 200 pages but with a good index. This book, as stated in the subtitle, indeed exposes the real Che Guevara and the useful idiots, particularly Hollywood celebrities and media personalities, who idolize him. Fontova’s book contains a lot of information that you do not find in other Che

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Faria: Opening Trade with Cuba and Letting the US Taxpayers Foot the Bill!

Much of the recent discussion among both Democrat and Republican members of Congress regarding the need to lift the travel ban and end the U.S. embargo of Cuba has revolved around the possibility of selling millions of dollars in agricultural products to Cuba. These politicians conveniently forget that the Castro brothers are dictators of the

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Fidel Castro’s medical care in the socialized Cuban paradise

The latest medical reports from Havana assert that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who is 80-years-old and has ruled the island for 47 years, will recuperate from his mysterious intestinal illness and return to “public life.” Venezuelan president, and Castro’s sidekick and fawning admirer, Hugo Chavez, likewise affirms that Castro does not have cancer, does not

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An Old Dictator Stumbles — An Analysis

Seventy-eight-year-old Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, dressed in his usual olive green fatigues, tripped and fell fracturing his left knee and sustaining a hairline fracture of the upper right arm Wednesday, October 20, 2004. He had just finished giving a speech at a graduation ceremony in Santa Clara when the incident happened. Security personnel rushed to

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Socialized Medicine in Cuba (Part II): “Doctor Diplomacy,” Sex Tourism, and Medical Apartheid

In Part I of this essay, we discussed the secret epidemic of dengue fever, the Cuban gulag, and other aspects of Cuban medicine leading to a poor state of health in that Caribbean island, based on Dr. Dessy Mendoza Rivero’s book ¡Dengue!-La Epidemia Secreta de Fidel Castro (Dengue! The Secret Epidemic of Fidel Castro). Cuba’s

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