The Bay of Pigs anniversary: Heroism, shame and comedy
Humberto Fontova, a Cuban-American writer and speaker, has written two interesting pieces on the 49th anniversary of the anti-Castro, anti-Communist Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
Fontova writes about the heroism of the anti-Castro Brigade after they were left on the Cuban beach without the American military support promised by the Kennedy administration, and how Ernesto Che Guevara responded to the anti-Castro assault. The so-called great guerrilla fighter shot himself.
My latest post at my blog, http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com, has links to both of Fontova’s pieces and my interview with Fontova about his book, Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize him.
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