tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post7520782229083693958..comments2023-11-02T05:39:15.915-04:00Comments on José Martà Blog: A Majority of Cubans Knew that Fidel Castro Was a Liar and a Fraud in 1959Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-7271614373926425882015-01-11T19:47:46.677-05:002015-01-11T19:47:46.677-05:00Manuel:
Many knew, many more had a nagging intuit...Manuel:<br /><br />Many knew, many more had a nagging intuition that things would take a turn for the worse, it was not only the elite and the Batistianos who fled before 1962.Vanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340793573089792646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-34021607384992747502015-01-11T13:07:17.726-05:002015-01-11T13:07:17.726-05:00Vana:
The rebels really were quite bored in their...Vana:<br /><br />The rebels really were quite bored in their mountain retreats, but not bored enough, however, to venture outside and actually do some fighting. Instead, they occupied themselves by convening courts-martial against their comrades-in-arms for sundry acts of "cowardice" or "treason" and executing them without appeal under their "Articles of War." <br /><br />How such articles could exist when, in fact, there was no war; or how a rebel could violate them, let alone be a coward or traitor, when he had never come within sight of the enemy during the whole course of that faux war, are questions that still beg an answer after 60 years. <br /><br />The <i>campesinos</i> who lived in the environs of the rebel camps were the first victims of the Revolution. Hundreds were killed for target practice in what was in effect the first phase of the Revolution's "Literacy Campaign" (wipe out illiteracy by wiping out the illiterate). <br /><br />If the <i>guajiros</i> refused to join the rebel ranks, then they were assumed to be "spies" and summarily executed. If they did agree to join, but returned home to visit their families living less than a kilometer away, upon returning to camp, they were summarily executed as deserters <i>and</i> spies.<br /><br />Yes, Vana, the fruit was putrid long before it dropped on the unsuspecting(?) heads of the Cuban people.Manuel A.Tellecheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-56479686978907102472015-01-10T16:03:32.477-05:002015-01-10T16:03:32.477-05:00Manuel:
By the way, my mom's friend Lucy, lef...Manuel:<br /><br />By the way, my mom's friend Lucy, left Cuba in 1961.Vanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340793573089792646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-33529619609414060392015-01-10T15:17:47.441-05:002015-01-10T15:17:47.441-05:00Manuel:
They knew even before 1959, my stepdad wa...Manuel:<br /><br />They knew even before 1959, my stepdad was what my mom called a mercenary, he decided mid 1958 he wanted to see with his own eyes what was going on, so off he went to the Escambray, what he did up there I haven't a clue, I do know that when he reappeared barbudo he told us, get ready to leave, they are hanging innocent people up there with barbed wire, communism is what's coming down from the mountains, those who had eyes and ears knew, only those either too stupid or envious refused to see.<br /><br />I say envious, because I believe that only those who wanted what others had and couldn't or wouldn't aquire it on their own, believed that the revolution would get it for them, even at others expense.<br /><br />I remember rumors in my neighborhood in early 59, people were not as gullible as castro thought, when he declared himself marxist lenninist they were already making up songs against it.<br /><br />Believing that it would not last led the people to be enslaved, when my sister and I left in May of 62 that's what we were told, you won't be gone that long, this won't last! Won't last, it's still there who woul have thought it back then.<br /><br /><br /><br />Vanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340793573089792646noreply@blogger.com