I tried watching that documentary buy found the use of Holywood movies to
make points and show enactments too much like saying "We didn't have any
REAL information." I got disgusted.
--- "The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan
It was very good. I really was irked by the terrorist living in Miami, close friend of Jeb Bush, almost smirking about blowing up cuban airliners and shooting bazookas at ships bound for cuba with medicine.
It's really amazing how close it is all tied together. It all started falling apart with the Bay of Pigs (and that is how Lyndon Johnson always referred to the JFK assassination, which speaks volumes). Right up to this day. All about Cuba. All the same dirty evil players.
Castro was a fool not to declare elections after achieving victory, and really, shooting people on tv is just not cool, but how could he hope to have any kind of fair election with the extent of CIA and mob interference in Cuba?
I also cannot believe how soft-gloved Castro's intelligence agents where. They routinely arrested CIA and mafia hitmen, only to let them go and try humiliating them in the media (which likely only played outside the US).
If I had been him, there wouldn't have been anyone left alive to interview for this doc.
--- “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
re: Kennedy his government made a bunch of attempts (besides the Bay of Pigs invasion) to assassinate Castro, & then Kennedy himself was assassinated. People seem to miss the irony there.
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My favourite Castro assassination attempt from the film was when Castro's ex got recruited by the CIA after they'd been broken up for a few months. They didn't get along very well after that otherwise the CIA couldn't have recruited her. She snuck into his/their apartment with a poison gelcap that would dissolve in his skin cream or something & Fidel suddenly walked in & saw her there, & asked her if she'd come to kill him. She said yes, so he handed her a pistol & said "Ok well let's get it over with then". She cocked the gun, pointed it at him & got cold feet & started crying, saying she couldn't kill him. He just laughed and said "No, nobody can." lmao what a guy<p>---<br>"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
OH YEAH! When the CIA hired those mafia guys from the FBI's wanted list they wanted them to just go right up to Castro with machine guns & mow him down & anyone else who got in the way. That was the CIA's idea but even the mafia guys weren't that crazy! Imagine what it must be like for a superpower to have someone like Castro just 100 miles away!
--- "George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
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make points and show enactments too much like saying "We didn't have any
REAL information." I got disgusted.
---
"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan
It's really amazing how close it is all tied together. It all started falling apart with the Bay of Pigs (and that is how Lyndon Johnson always referred to the JFK assassination, which speaks volumes). Right up to this day. All about Cuba. All the same dirty evil players.
Castro was a fool not to declare elections after achieving victory, and really, shooting people on tv is just not cool, but how could he hope to have any kind of fair election with the extent of CIA and mob interference in Cuba?
I also cannot believe how soft-gloved Castro's intelligence agents where. They routinely arrested CIA and mafia hitmen, only to let them go and try humiliating them in the media (which likely only played outside the US).
If I had been him, there wouldn't have been anyone left alive to interview for this doc.
---
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va