Six Anti-american Myths

Many of these anti-American claims have come to be viewed as basic accepted fact in the minds of many people. For example, it is treated as accepted fact that when the US liberated Cuba from Spain, it wasn’t truly independent; but really under America’s economic control through its “vile” corporations. What’s not mentioned is that after Cuba got its independence, it thrived and prospered until the Castro brothers and the “heroic” Che destroyed Cuba after taking it over. The poverty is blamed on the American “embargo” even though it’s clearly caused by the policies of the Communist regime.  What’s not mentioned is that the US is the top food supplier in Cuba. There is no way that the American “embargo” could actually impoverish Cuba that much. Pretty much, America can’t win. It does business with Cuba, and it has a monopoly on the whole island. It has an embargo, and it’s starving and impoverishing the island. Castro’s nationalizing of American corporations is portrayed by the revisionist anti-American propagandists as a justified move. The fact that Cubans have less food than Spanish slaves did when Cuba was under Spanish rule is not caused by the embargo, but by Castro’s food rationing policies [to see a chart of the amount, look at page 152 of Humberto Fontova's eye-opening book "Exposing the real Che Guevara and the Useful idiots who Idolize him"].

Castro declaring his country Communist is blamed on America. America is supposedly so bad that Castro had no choice but to declare himself a Communist and get aid from the Soviet Union. However, the truth is that the US brought Castro to power in the first place. America had an arms embargo on Batista, supported Fidel Castro’s movement, told Batista to leave and even was the first one to recognize Castro’s regime. Robert Reynolds, the CIA’s Caribbean desk on the Cuban revolution, boasted,”Me and my staff were all Fidelistas.”

Former US ambassador Earl T. Smith said,”We put Castro in power.” 

He also said,”To make my point more clear, let me say that, we helped to overthrow the Batista dictatorship which was pro-American only to install the Castro dictatorship which is pro-Russian.”

The killings and torture of political opponents and those the Communist regime didn’t like gets whitewashed [if not denied or justified]. Castroite propagandists claim that those executed in La Cabana were some of Batista’s worst killers and torturers and that the tribunals were fair. They claim that there was “volumes” of testimony by their “victims”. Yet the evidence says otherwise. In reality, most of those executed in La Cabana were innocent people who had no connection to Batista. Some of them served in Castro’s July 26 movement in an attempt to bring democracy to Cuba, but only to be disappointed that Castro turned out to be another dictator. Even most of the executed victims who did not serve in that movement still had no connection to Batista.

The ones who did get a “tribunal” got sham tribunals, where the verdict was already decided before the “tribunal”.

Plus, Che Guevara said,”Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! We execute from revolutionary conviction.”

So out of revolutionary conviction, thousands of innocent men, women and children were shot. La Cabana showed what a stupid cowardly dufus Che was. Every object witness [not the Castroite propagandists] who saw what happened at La Cabana expressed their disgust on what the Communist regime through Che did there.

The revisionist anti-American leftists say that, though there were executions in La Cabana, the killing of political prisoners stopped. However, though La Cabana is no longer an execution site, political opponents are still killed and tortured by the Communist regime. And there are still labor camps where people disliked by the Castro brothers are tortured.

In the conclusion, I refuted some more of the revisionist anti-American leftist propaganda. The truth is that, for all its flaws, America is a great nation. There are much more anti-American myths. This article just refuted six of them.