July 24, 2008
Bogota 1948
Over the years, there has been much speculation about when or even if fidel embraced Communism, along with questions about what support he received from the U.S. in his take over of Cuba. We know American media, led by Herbert Matthews of the NYT´S, created the myth of fidel as a Robin Hood like hero, out to save the masses, and that the U.S. withdrew support for Batista, thereby clearing the way for castro's takeover--whose government the U.S. recognized with shocking speed.
Was fidel a Communist all along? If so, then why would the U.S. support the Communist takeover of a close neighbor?
Click here, and read a declassified communiqué from the U.S. Embassy in Havana to the State Department dated 15 April 1948, just one of the fascinating documents linked in The Cuban Delegation, by Paul Wolf.
Posted by Ziva at July 24, 2008 03:50 PM
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I don't know if he was a communist then or not, but Am sure he was a son of a bitch then.
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at July 24, 2008 03:57 PM
I've never seen that document before! Man, and I have read a great deal regarding the Bogotazo of '48. But this thing is completely new to me. WOW! Thanks for posting.
AB
Posted by: CubaWatch at July 24, 2008 04:01 PM
CubaWatch: Here is a first-hand account of the Bogotazo from Enrique Ovares, whom I interviewed in 1990.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ovares/Ovares.pdf
A detailed account of Fidel Castro's participation is in the first chapter of my book "The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution."
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/moncada-reviews.htm
Posted by: delacova at July 24, 2008 11:02 PM
fidel has always been a fidelista first and foremost. To him power is everything. To accomplish this, he becomes the perpetual chameleon… He becomes whatever you want him to be.
Raul on the other hand has always been a committed Communist. In his late teens he belonged to the Socialist Youth –which was affiliated to the Cuban Communist Party- and in his early twenties he became a member of the PSP (Partido Socialista Popular) which was led by Blas Roca Calderío. Russian declassified documents indicate that Blas Roca and others that belonged to the Cuban Communist Party were on the payroll of the then U.S.S.R. as early as the 1940s.
Posted by: Firefly at July 25, 2008 05:17 PM
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