Castro's Revolution Untold. The Cover up Revealed.

By Estela Teresita Delgado

A comprehensive book that dispels prevalent misconceptions surrounding Castro's revolution in Cuba while shedding light on lesser-known and often overlooked facts about that intricate and transformative social process.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oxford Book Writers
• Release date: Sep 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088280287

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Castro's Lies Unfolded

The Unfrozen Truth of La Isla Bonita

Estela Teresita Delgado

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Copyright © 2023

All Rights Reserved

Dedication

To my mother,

Bárbara Rosales Zurita

Acknowledgment

Writing a book in English has been an industrious journey; however, I dared to do it because of the importance of communicating the information revealed in this book.

The results were achieved thanks to the time many friends have generously devoted to it. I especially thank for all corrections and suggestions, Paula Brock, Luisa Fournier, Norta de Cespedes and Amanda Krieger.

The research process took around two years, and hearing the experiences of many Cuban generations gave me a special motivation. I extend my profound gratitude to all the people who shared their testimonies with me, despite their suffering while they recalled those memories.

I do not name the people in Cuba that participated in different stages of the book to protect their identities, but I admire their courage to stand for freedom and to take so many risks every day.  All of them are very close to my heart, and I will never forget them. Thank you.

I am extremely grateful to the designer, Stewart Severeyn, for a remarkable cover. I highly appreciate the participation of my niece Amelia Tejuca and my nephew Frank Mejías, who helped me in several marketing actions.

Thank you to my family for being my inspiration, to my friends from whom I have learned so much, and to all that believed in me.

Most of all, thanks to God, who has made everything in my life possible.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Any man’s death diminished me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never sent to know for whom the bells toll; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Introduction

The First Myth

The Second Myth

The Third Myth

The Fourth Myth

The Fifth Myth

The Sixth Myths

The Seventh Myth

Cubans and the future.

Bibliography

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Introduction

The social process the island of Cuba has undergone and endured is communist by definition, and it is an apostrophe by omission. There is more to be said about this historic event than what has been propagandized.  On the one hand, stands what many believe it is supposed to be, and on the other hand, the reality is kept inside a carapace. Some of the historic gaps are filled in this book. Therefore, those who are interested in a remarkable human experience will enjoy it very much and benefit from its reading.

The definition of the policy of the island leaves no doubts since the Communist Party is the only one authorized to exist, and all government officials are appointed by that party. Legislative, executive, and judicial powers are all in the hand of a single party, thus putting into practice what is commonly known as a dictatorship. The Communist Party sets the policies for all social activities in the country. Representatives of the party are part of the managing team of all entities, be it a professional association, a school, or a manufacturing facility.

The revolution was also communist because its leaders used the Marxist principle to theorize about the origin of the process. Karl Marx stated that the mode of production of material life conditions determines social, political, and intellectual life.  

Since Marx was a materialist and denied the existence of a Supreme God, he affirmed that it is not the consciousness of men that defines their existence but that their social existence conditions their consciousness.  Therefore, his theory speaks of the inevitability of a revolution once objective and subjective conditions are present.

Fidel Castro based his strategy on a weak point of Cuban society in the fifties: life in the countryside, and he took that issue as the objective condition.  Thus, the leader of the revolution argued that the injustice present in the economy of Cuba’s countryside was the main reason for the revolution. That is, half a million farmers would work only a few months of the year, and 100,000 farmers were working on farms they did not own.  That argument was used by Fidel Castro in his defense speech after the attack on the second most important military headquarters in Cuba at that time: The Moncada Headquarters.  In this work, we will prove otherwise.

But why is it necessary for anyone to have a clear understanding of an event that happened more than 55 years ago, many miles away? The first reason was expressed masterfully by John Donne: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Second, it is extremely important to analyze the process known as the Cuban Revolution because of its impact on the events taking place on our continent now, particularly in the United States, but also how it affects the rest of the world.

Perhaps too many people believe that the Cuban Revolution is just a historic event with no consequences for our present.  Many worldwide decision-makers had not been born or were very young when Castro entered the island’s capital. This historic event happened before man took his first step on the moon, before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and even before the end of the Vietnam War.

The international community turned a blind eye to the suffering of the Cuban people. Many democracies conducted business on the island, thus violating the rights of the native population. The consequences are present every day now.

We have recently witnessed the take-over of one of the most important democracies of South America with powerful, valuable economic resources: Venezuela. Democracy has reached a setback; there is no more freedom of expression or free press, and many political prisoners are now suffering in Venezuelan jails. The instructions and influence of the Cuban Intelligence Forces in the Venezuelan government have been widely covered by the press.

Many leaders of Central and South America follow the orders from Havana now that Cuba is using Venezuelan oil as a bargaining tool. The votes of these countries in international organizations are usually against democracy.

Furthermore, the government of Cuba has acted hostilely against the United States of America in recent days. In 1988, several agents of Cuba were taken to prison in Miami for working as Cuban government spies.   Ana Belen Montes, a former senior analyst of the USA Defense Intelligence Agency, was arrested by the FBI in 2001 after it was discovered that she had worked for 16 years as an agent of the Cuban government. At the same time, the Cuban government shared the information provided by its agent with Russia and China.

In addition, the official of the State Department, Mr. Walter Kendall Myers, and his wife were arrested in June 2009 after working for 30 years as spies for Cuba. Also, in the summer of 2013, a ship from Havana that was transporting weapons to North Korea was detected as it was crossing the Panama Canal, thus violating the United Nations' sanctions.

On March 1, 2015, Fidel Castro signed an article in the newspaper of the Communist party, Gramma, where he confirmed that Cuba had been monitoring movements of military equipment in the United States from Lourdes, an electronic military base near Havana, which was equipped by the Russians.  

Around the same time, it was reported that the Chinese cargo ship Da Dan Xia was intercepted by Colombian customs officials, and the captain of the vessel was incarcerated. The captain of the ship had declared that the vessel was transporting some cereals to Cuba, but it had a large hidden cargo of weapons. It is not known why those weapons were not officially declared.

In June 2023, the Wallstreet Journal made public the negotiations of the Cuban regime with China to install a new military basis to spy on the United States. That statement was followed by several references to existing Russian and Chinese bases in Cuba and new plans to increase the collaboration with those enemies of the United States.

The Berlin Wall was the actual political border between East and West Europe, between Communism and Capitalism. That is the role of the Strait of Florida on our continent: it is the border between freedom and oppression, democracy and dictatorship.  We can only break that wall with the truth.

Man is a tireless seeker of truth because of his natural devotion to freedom since it was promised that truth would set one free.  The desire to know as