The Story Tony Chao Flores

Humberto Fontova has yet another heartwrenching article at Newsmax on that best friend of the left that runs some island in the Caribbean.

A quick excerpt:

In 1961 (the year of the paredon) a 20-year-old boy named Tony Chao Flores took his place at the execution stake, but he hobbled to it on crutches. Tony was a photogenic lad, a cover-boy in fact. In January of 1959 his smiling face was featured on the very cover of Cuba's Bohemia magazine, a combination Time-Newsweek-People, let's call it. In the photo, Tony's long blond hair dangled over his tanned face, almost to his green gallego eyes. His trademark smirk showed below. The senoritas all swooned over Tony. He always had his pick. Tony was actually a rebel at the time, wearing the uniform of Castro's own 26th of July Movement.

He'd taken them at their word. Let's face it, we're all idealists and a bit gullible at 18. (much harder to fathom are the thousands in their 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's, both in Cuba and the U.S., who swallowed Castro's BS by the shovelful, rolling their eyes and rubbing their tummies deliriously - then asked for seconds!)

Within days of marching into Havana, Castro's deeds began to manifest: mass-jailings, mass-robbery, firing squads. The reds grabbed all newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations. They banned elections, strikes, private-property, free-speech. Each dawn, from one end of the island to the other, Castro and Che's firing squads piled up the corpses of any who resisted. None of that "engagement," none of that "dialogue," none of that "re-conciliation" Castro's agents (on his payroll and off) constantly whimper about nowadays - none of that lovey-dovey stuff was mentioned when Castro held the hammer. Now that he's stone broke, without a Russian sugar-daddy and out of sap creditors to stiff - well, now his U.S press agents can't shut up about "re-conciliation" and "dialogue."

Please, read the whole thing.

Posted by Val Prieto at July 29, 2004 08:16 AM

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