Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

Fact #2. “He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.”

On November 17, 1962, less than a month from the Cuban Missile Crisis, the F.B.I. arrested three Cubans on charges of plotting a vast campaign of sabotage in New York City and seized a cache of explosives and incendiary devices. Among the targets were oil refineries in New Jersey, New York’s mayor retail stores, the New York subway system and throw hand grenades into crowds of Christmas shoppers. “It was a question of moving in before they had a chance to use their equipment," said John Malone, agent in charge of the New York FBI office. Also 10 others that were being trained in the art of sabotage have been subpoenaed. One of the three detainees included Roberto Santiesteban Casanova, an attaché at the Cuban Mission. Because he had arrived recently, his official papers were being processed and the U.S. government asserted he still did not enjoy diplomatic immunity. A Cuban couple, Jose Gomez Abad and his wife Elisa Montero de Gomez Abad, were charged with complicity in the affair and ordered to leave the country. Both were attaches at the Mission, and as such did have diplomatic immunity from arrest. FBI agents said they confiscated an arsenal of weapons when they arrested the trio. The cache was found in a Manhattan Jewelry manufacturing shop of Garcia Orellana one of the arrested.*

*The News-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nov. 19, 1962
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Cuban diplomats Elsa Montera Maldonado and Jose Gomez Abad, a husband and wife team at the Cuba Mission in New York City, who in reality were State Security agents who plotted to murder large numbers of Americans. Both were expelled for their role in a planned terrorist attack on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 1962 which sought to detonate 500 kilos of explosives inside Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdale’s and Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal.*

*Partial Chronology of Cuban Diplomatic Malfeasance 1962 – 2015 Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Partial Chronology of Cuban Diplomatic Malfeasance 1962 - 2015

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As soon as Santiesteban arrived in New York, he contacted the rest of his team, including José Gómez Abad and his wife Elsa, both attachés at the Cuban mission, and José García Orellana, a Cuban immigrant who ran a costume jewelry shop in Manhattan. FBI estimates of how many others were involved in the plot range from twenty-five to fifty people. The secret mission of the terrorist team was to accomplish Castro’s orders to blow up a big portion of Manhattan, including the Statue of Liberty, Macy’s department store, several subway stations, the 42nd street bus terminal and Grand Central station, as well as several refineries along the New Jersey shore, including the Humble Oil and Refining Company in Linden. To this effect they stored a huge cache of explosives at Garcia’s shop.*

*Andrew Tully, White Tie and Dagger (New York: Pocket Books, 1968), pp. 74-78.


Castro’s agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.

A little perspective: for their March 2004 Madrid subway blasts, all 10 of them, that killed and maimed almost 2,000 people, al-Qaeda used a grand total of 100 kilos of TNT. Castro and Che’s agents planned to set off five times that explosive power in the three biggest department stores on earth, all packed to suffocation and pulsing with holiday cheer on the year's biggest shopping day. Thousands of New Yorkers, including women and children, actually -- given the date and targets -- probably mostly women and children, were to be incinerated and entombed.*

*Humberto Fontova, The Blackest of Fridays Planned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Townhall, November 28, 2014.
https://townhall.com/columnists/hum...nned-by-fidel-castro-and-che-guevara-n1924230

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Castro’s sister, Juanita Castro testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in June 1965, said that “Fidel’s feeling for this country cannot even be imagined by Americans. His intention, his obsession to destroy the U.S. is one of his main interests and objectives.”

Frightening what the Castro-Che regime had in storage for the American people. Thanks to the FBI under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, the agents were able to stopped this terrorist plot saving the New Yorkers from a holocaust bigger that 9/11.

Immediately after assuming power Castro established a center for subversive operation against practically all Latin American governments. He use violence as a method to export his revolution. The regime established contacts with guerrilla and terrorist groups, providing them with training, weapons, Cuban agents and economic aid.

Excerpts from, Las Guerras Secretas de Fidel Castro, Juan F. Benemelis Editorial Hypermedia, 2015.

Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti

On April 16, 1959, an arm expedition of 85 men, 82 of them Cubans, landed in Playa Colorada, Panama, carrying out the first act of external aggression by the Castro regime. The invasion was a failure. Dominican Republic invasion followed on June 14, 1959. A combine landing of 200 Cubans and Dominicans commanded by Cubans army officials took place at Constanza y Puerto Plata beaches. Trujillo’s army annihilated the invasion force. In August 14 the “Operation Haiti” began, when a contingent of Cubans and several Hattians commanded by Cubans army officials, landed at Les Irois, Hatti. This invasion too ended in disaster.

Nicaragua

On June 1, 1959, a contingent of Cubans and Nicaragüenses under the command of Joaquín Chamorro, departed from Cuba towards Chontales, Nicaragua. After his capture, Chamorro admitted the military support of the Castro regime. Several Cubans soldiers were killed during the skirmishes, and by August the Nicaragua army put down the invasion. At the beginning of 1964, Cuban fishing vessels landed 20 guerrillas and a cache of weapons off the coast of Nicaragua. In 1967 Cuban military advisers would take on the task of organizing a guerrilla territory in the mountains Matagalpa. On August 1967 Nicaragua’s army unleashed a campaign that wiped out the guerrillas.

In June 23, 1977, U.S. President Carter suspended military and economic credits to Nicaragua adducing that the Somoza Government violated the human rights of his people. In October 12, 1977, the Sandinista national Liberation Front (FSNL) attacked army patrols of the National Guard. The Castro regime invited leaders of the FSNL to Havana to coordinate the guerrilla insurrection. In January 31, 1978, Venezuela decreed an oil embargo against Nicaragua, and in February the guerrillas attacked the villages of Granada, Santa Clara, Rivas and the port of Corinto. By the end of 1978 militants trained in Cuba continued to be infiltrated in Nicaragua, and enlisted and equipped there. On July 17, 1979, the FSNL topple the Nicaraguan government. Without the massive military contribution of Castro, the FSNL had not been able to take power.

On February 26, 1990, the Sandinistas lost the election to Violeta Chamorro, widow of the slain publisher of ‘La Prensa’, who won 55% of the vote. Castro was unable to convince the Sandinistas to not celebrate free elections due to the fact that there was popular discontent.

Guatemala

In November 13, 1960, a conspiracy of army officers broke at the military airfield of Zacapa and Puerto Barrios in Guatemala. Airplanes of the Cuban Air Force overflew the region supplying de rebels. The upraising was liquidated and Yong Sosa, one of the leaders of the conspiracy, escaped to the mountains with some troops. In February 1962, Yong Sosa opened the guerrilla front known as MR-13 in the Minas mountain range after receiving generous military logistics from the Castro regime. During 1962 and 1963 took place a wave of terrorists’ attacks, kidnappings and sabotage. In 1964 and 1965, the Guatemalan Armed Forces operations eliminated most of the rural guerrillas, but the terrorist activities of the urban guerrillas intensified. The urban guerrillas assassinated the U.S. ambassador in 1968 and West German ambassador in 1970.

During the autumn of 1980, representatives of four guerrilla groups met in Managua, and in November the four groups signed a unity agreement to stablish the General Revolutionary Command (CGR). Representatives of the CGR traveled to Havana where Castro agree to increased military training and assistance. Around 2,000 guerrillas were trained in Cuba. The weapons sent by Castro were smuggled into Guatemala through Nicaragua passing overland through Honduras. The guerrillas stepped up terrorist actions to provoke repression and destabilize the government. The army counterinsurgency campaigns between 1980 and 1985 substantially weakened the guerrilla forces. In 1991 peace negotiations were initiated that culminated in a peace agreement in 1996.

Colombia - Part 1


In May of 1960 Castro started guerrilla and terrorist activity in Colombia. In March of 1961 was discovered a subversive network in Colombia supported by Cubans personnel there. In 1963 the government of Colombia broke relations with Cuba due to the outright subversive nature of Castro. The insurgent activity gained new vigor with the arrival that same year of a picket of terrorists trained in Cuba. In April, an important arms smuggling from Cuba was intercepted. Instructions and messages from Havana were also intercepted. Disorders, sabotages, and guerrillas attacks followed one after another. In July the national capitol in Bogotá was the site of several explosions and a month later broke out in the capital a real concert of bombs.

In August a plot at the military base in Cartagena was dismantled, and several bundles of documents were capture making clear the link with Cuba and specifically Castro's purpose in matching the pronouncement of the barracks with a double attack on the president of Colombia Guillermo León Valencia, and that of Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt. The Colombian president in a national speech said that his government and that of Caracas had evidence of a plot prepared by the high echelons of Cuba that shake the country and neighboring Venezuela.

On April 13, 1964, the commander of the Colombian naval force of the Atlantic revealed that Soviet fishing vessels stationed in Cuba were being used to supply logistical material to the Colombian opposition. Backed by the Castro regime, the Colombian Manuel Marulanda (alias “Tiro Fijo”, future leader of FARC), raised up in the mountains in May 1964. In March 1965, Marulanda guerrilla ransacked Inza’s hamlet, burned public buildings and executed several residents. By the 1970’s the FARC movement was very active in the country and the Movimiento 19 de Abril (M-19) was formed. The M-19 accepted weapons from drug traffickers as a reward for the facilities that Castro provided for the marketing of narcotics.

At the end of 1980 the M-19 put into operation a vast scale project in Colombia with Cuban assistance, on behalf of which a contingent of 200 activists traveled to Havana to be prepared in the military arts. By February 1981, and after completing its preparation in Cuba, the aforementioned group of 200 guerrillas infiltrated by boat in Colombia from Panama along the Pacific coast. The operation was dismantle by the military and Rosenberg Pabón, the leader of the M-19, was captured. In view of the clear evidence of Castro’s role in the training and landing of the guerrillas, Colombia broke diplomatic relations with the Castro regime.

President Belisario Betancur (1982-86) negotiated a ceasefire with the FARC in May 1984. Around 1985 the government dismantle many drug cartels. The guerrillas then got more involved in cocaine trafficking and resorted to extortion and kidnapping to finance their terrorist attacks. On November 1985 the M-19 urban guerrilla attacked the Palace of Justice and took the Supreme Court judges hostage. In the issuing battle with the army 12 judges, most of the guerrillas and around 120 people lost their lives. In June 1987, the ceasefire collapsed after the guerrillas attacked a military unit and President Barco sent an ultimatum demanding immediately disarm or face military retaliation. On August, several deserters of the FARC revealed that on several guerrilla fronts there were Cuban advisers; and that they were also present in the ELN17 action and sabotage teams.

Colombia - Part 2

During the 1990s the FARC loaded with cocaine money has close to 20,000 fighters. The guerrillas protected many coca growers in exchange for money. They terrorized the population with kidnappings, bombing and successful attacks against the Army. The government abandon many isolate outposts, which allow the guerrillas to control around one quarter of Colombian territory. By the late 1990s the FARC had the upper hand in the military confrontation.

On January 9, 1999, President Pastrana started peace talks with the FARC and agree to withdraw the army from the area of el Caguan where the negotiations were taking place. In July 8, the FARC launched an offensive attacking 15 small towns targeting infrastructure, police posts and kidnapping. The Colombian military responded by attacking the town of Puerto Lleras controlled by the FARC guerrillas, which retreated from the town suffering many casualties. This was a turning point in the arm confrontation in favor of the government. During the negotiations warfare and violence continued. In February 2002 the guerrillas hijacked a plane and kidnapped a senator. In February 20, Pastrana announced the end of the peace process.

In August 2002, Álvaro Uribe was elected president. His priority was to defeat the guerrilla groups and his main concerns were terrorism and narcotic trade. By August 2004, kidnappings, and terrorist attacks decreased by as much as 50%. Negotiations with the paramilitary group AUC were finished in November 2007 with their complete demobilization. On March 1, 2008, Colombian troops killed FARC commander Raúl Reyes in a guerrilla camp inside the border with Ecuador. On July 2008, the Colombian Special Forces recues former senator Ingrid Betancourt, held in captivity for six years by FARC. She was among 15 hostages freed in the operation carried out without bloodshed. Uribe offensive against the guerrillas’ mange to bring their number down from 20,000 to 8,000 fighters. He transformed Colombia from a narco terrorist state into a democracy.

In August 2010, Juan Manuel Santos took over as president, and promise to continue the armed offensive against the guerrillas. His administration started peace talks with the FARC in 2012. The Castro regime would be the stage for the 4 years negotiations to put an end to the conflict. On September 26, 2016, the Colombian government and the FERC signed a peace agreement, but in October 2 the voters rejected the agreement since it was too lenient to FARC members that had committed crimes. On November 24 a revised peace agreement was signed by the Colombia’s government and the FARC. On January 10, 2018, the guerrilla group ELN resumed attacks after the cease fire ended. Seems that the cease fire would not last.

According to a study by Colombia's National Centre for Historical Memory, 220,000 people have died in the conflict between 1958 and 2013, most of them civilians (177,307 civilians and 40,787 fighters) and more than five million civilians were forced from their homes between 1985 – 2012.

Argentina

People’s Guerrilla Army

Che Guevara organized a guerrilla force identified as the People’s Guerrilla Army to incursion into Argentina, chosen his close friend Jorge Ricardo Masetti founder of Prensa Latina as leader of it. On 21 September 1963 Masetti's guerrillas, mostly Argentinians and a few experience Cuban militaries well-armed, crossed into Argentina from Bolivia. On March 1964 they made contact with the Argentinian government troops that seized their camp and arrested some guerrillas. By the middle of April the rest of the guerrillas were found, two of them were kill in combat and the rest arrested, putting an end to the guerrilla army. The impounded arms were supplied by the Castro regime.

This was follow by the dismantled of the espionage network that the Castro regime had set up in the general staff of the Argentine army. In July a huge arsenal was captured in the Sweet Home hotel, in Buenos Aires, and two weeks later another hiding place was uncovered at the Ezeiza airport, in the suburbs of the capital, where rifles, machine guns and uniforms from Castro’s rebel army were seized.

The Montoneros

The Montoneros were formed around 1970, and with large sums of money provide by the Castro regime, initiated a campaign of kidnapping and murdering. In May 29, they kidnapped and murdered former president of Argentina General Pedro Aramburu. In May 1971, kidnapping of the manager of the Swift meat processing plant, collecting ransom for his release, and in April 1972, the assassination of Fiat representative and executions of General Juan Sanchez and politician Roberto Uzal. In July they detonated explosives in the Plaza de San Isidro, Buenos Aires, injuring several people, and in October, detonation of a bomb inside the Sheraton Hotel. In April 1973, they killed Colonel Héctor Irabarren in a kidnap attempt.

On March 11, 1973, general elections took place in Argentina. The Peronist Héctor Cámpora won the presidency. On May he decree the general amnesty for all political prisoners, including the Montoneros guerrillas in prison. On June 20, Perón returned to Argentina, and in the Ezeiza Airport gathering welcome him, the Montoneros clashed with the Peronistas, which resulting in 13 dead and over 300 wounded. Cámpora resigned in July, and in the new election on September 12, Perón was elected President.

Notwithstanding Perón strong people support, terrorism was not reduced. On September 25, 1973, José Rucci, secretary of the General Confederation of Labor, was ambush and killed by the Montoneros, and on February 24, 1974, they killed Teodoro Ponce, a Peronist labor leader. In the celebration of May 1, 1974, Perón denounced the Montoneros as mercenaries ‘of a country of the area’. He died on July 1, and his wife Isabel Perón assumed the presidency. On July 15, the Montoneros assassinated Arturo Roig, former foreign minister, and on the 17 they killed David Kraiselburd, editor in chief of El Día newspaper. In September they kidnapped the two brothers of the Bunge and Born family business, receiving a ransom of $60 million. On October the Montoneros and FAR merge and started guerrilla operations against the government. During 1975, they increased substantially there terrorist attacks due to permanent sources of financial resources through ransoms and extortions. By the end of the year they have killed and wounded many soldiers and policemen.

In May 24, 1976, a coup d’état deposes Isabel Perón. In July of that year, important leaders of the People’s Revolutionary Army (ERP) died in a confrontation. Its organization weakens, its militants are hunted in their hiding places and the exodus of their cadres begins. The violent repression of the military is felt by the Montoneros, who show a clear decline, registering numerous desertions and betrayals. By 1977, they were in effect finished. With the help of Castro, the Montoneros leadership relocates to Cuba its staff, labor organization and espionage cadres.

Venezuela - Part 1

Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR)

Group of Venezuelans, members of the Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), trained in Cuba, landed in the Venezuela coast in the State of Miranda. On November 1, 1963, a cache of weapons was discovered on a beach of the Paraguana Peninsula. Venezuela accused Castro to arm the terrorist group MIR for the operation Caracas to launch an attack against the Capital to overthrow the government. The leaders of the terrorist group trained in Cuba were captured and their plan aborted.

El 8 de mayo de 1967 una docena de guerrilleros, 8 venezolanos y 4 cubanos desembarcaron en Venezuela en la playa de Machurucuto con objeto de entrenar a guerrilleros del MIR. El Ejército de Venezuela los encontró la noche del 10 de mayo luego de que un pescador de la región avisara a autoridades locales. La batalla se prolongó hasta la madrugada del 11 de mayo, donde fueron capturados dos guerrilleros cubanos, nueve de los restantes fueron muertos y uno se escapó. El Gobierno de Venezuela denuncio la acción a la OEA y rompió relaciones con el régimen de Castro. The MIR executed many officers, soldiers and civilians, engaged in kidnapping and other acts of terrorism during the 1960s. In 1974, Venezuela and Cuba reestablished diplomatic relations.

On February 4, 1992, lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez coup attempt fail and he surrendered. Castro and ex-president Rafael Caldera knew of Chávez's coup plot. The aim was to remove President Andrés Pérez and install Caldera as president. A second coup attempt on November 27, also fail.

On March 1993, Pérez was accused of misappropriations of public funds. On May 20, 1993, the Supreme Court voted nine to six that merit exist for a trial. On May 21, a simple majority of the Senate, Pérez party held only 48% of the seats, vote to authorize his trial and was suspended from his position as President. The Senate decision was based in political motives.

Caldera led a coalition of small parties and promised to pardon de 1992 coup plotters. In the presidential elections held on December 5, 1993, Caldera won with only 30.5% of the vote. In 1994 Caldera pardoned the coup plotters and gave them full political rights making impossible to try them on any charges related to their coup, including the death of more than 200 people. Castro invited Chávez to Cuba in December 1994, given him a hero's welcome, and started to groom him.

Venezuela – Part 2

The Fifth Republic Movement (MVR)

The Fifth Republic Movement (MVR), a socialist political party, was founded in July 1997 to support the candidacy of Hugo Chávez who won the presidential election on December 6, 1998, with 56.2% of the vote. For Castro, who had attempt to get access to Venezuela oil since the 1960s, Chávez’s election was a dream come true. Chávez, since sworn in as president in February 1999, established a close bond with Fidel Castro. In 2000 Chávez invited Castro to Venezuela and signed an agreement with him supplying the regime with 53,000 barrels of oil per day at cut-rate prices, Castro in returned sent twenty thousands of medical personnel, military advisors and other support staff to Venezuela. The same year the National Assembly granted Chávez emergency powers and to rule by decree. Two decrees, the land reform and increase control of the oil company PDVSA, which antagonized opposition political parties, Chambers of Commerce and Central Workers union.

During 2001 Chávez ordered the military to work, open their bases and files to Castro regime military. On April 11, 2002, up to one million Venezuelans marched in opposition to Chávez, which approval rating drop to around 30%. During the protest 23 people were kill and over 100 wounded. The military demanded Chávez resignation, and on the 12 he accepted an interning president was appointed. On the 13 military loyalist to Chávez retook the Miraflores Palace. The military coup plotters drafted a statement recognizing Carmona as President, but demanding the restoration of the country's democratic institutions. The coup failed and Chávez was re-installed.

After the coup attempt, Chávez bond to Castro grew stronger. In August 2004 the agreement was expanded to supply the Castro regime with 90,000 barrels of oil per day at subsidies prices. In returned Castro increased the Cuban personnel in Venezuela to 40,000. Venezuela pays the Castro regime around $5.4 billion per year for the regime assistance, a significant source of revenue for the regime.

In 2007, Chávez proposed that Cuba join Venezuela in a confederation of two nations. He said: “Deep and rich country by a smaller and poor country was accomplished at the request of the big country down, we are one single government, one single country.” Venezuela also increased the amount of oil it shipped to Cuba to 111,700 bpd in 2008. The Castro regime infiltration of Venezuela military and civilian institutions was achieved. The number Cubans intelligence operatives and military advisors operating in Venezuela increased into the thousands. Around 400 military advisors provide direct support to the Presidential Guard. Cuban advisors watch practically over everything.

Argentina - Part 1

People’s Guerrilla Army

Che Guevara organized a guerrilla force identified as the People’s Guerrilla Army to incursion into Argentina, chosen his close friend Jorge Ricardo Masetti founder of Prensa Latina as leader of it. On 21 September 1963 Masetti's guerrillas, mostly Argentinians and a few experience Cuban military well-armed, crossed into Argentina from Bolivia. On March 1964 they made contact with the Argentinian government troops that seized their camp and arrested some guerrillas. By the middle of April the rest of the guerrillas were found, two of them were kill in combat and the rest arrested, putting an end to the guerrilla army. The impounded arms were supplied by the Castro regime.

This was follow by the dismantled of the espionage network that the Castro regime had set up in the general staff of the Argentine army. In July a huge arsenal was captured in the Sweet Home hotel, in Buenos Aires, and two weeks later another hiding place was uncovered at the Ezeiza airport, in the suburbs of the capital, where rifles, machine guns and uniforms from Castro’s rebel army were seized.

Peru

Peru formed part of Che Guevara’s continental guerrilla plans. The Peruvian Ejército the Liberación Nacional (ELN) was founded in Cuba in September 1962 by former members of the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP). In May 1963, the ELN guerrilla organized by the Castro regime was surprised and defeated in the border city of Puerto Maldonado. By 1965 the insurrectional activity in Peru increased with the skirmishes of Uceda, head of the MIR and closely linked to the Castro regime, in the eastern Andean mountain range. In October 1965, Uceda is captured and executed along with seven other guerrillas. Among the evidence found to Uceda was the regular clandestine radio contact he had with the Castro regime. Uceda was replaced by Guillermo Lobatón, a protégé of Che Guevara trained in Cuba. In December Lobatón was killed in combat. This marked the decline of the Peruvian guerrilla.

Uruguay

In 1965 Raúl Sendic name his terrorist group Tupamaros in the wake of sabotage to the pharmaceutical factory Bayer in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1966 took place a meeting between the leaders of the Tupamaros and Castro, where he agreed to provide guerrilla training to this group and its high command was installed in Havana. By the mid of 1967, with the help of the regime, the Tupamaros established mini-factories of explosives and war props. In September 1968, the Tupamaros attack the casino of Carrasco. On February 14, 1969, they attack the financial store Monty docked; four days later repeated the action in the San Rafael casino, and on October 8, they took the town of Pando.

In July-August 1970 the Tupamaros kidnap the Brazilian Consul Aloysio Días Gomide and the American Dan Mitrione. They demanded in exchange for both, the freedom of Brazilian political prisoners, and of all their detained members. The president of Uruguay rejected any negotiation with the Tupamaros. On August 7, the bulk of the Tupamaros leadership, including Sendic, were arrested in a raid, and the same day the guerrilla kidnaped the American Claude Fly. On August 9, they killed Mitrione. On January 9, 1971, they kidnapped the British Ambassador. On September 6, Sendic and over a hundred guerrilla escaped from Punta Carretas prison. On April 1972, the new president of Uruguay declared the state of war. Sendic was detained again on September 1, 1972, the only one of the guerrilla chief still free, practically putting an end the guerrilla warfare.

Never say anything bad about the dead, only good. Fidel is dead ... good.

Paraphrase of Mom's Mobley.

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Never say anything bad about the dead, only good. Fidel is dead ... good.

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The only good communist is a dead communist.

Bolivia

Bolivia was chosen as the main guerrilla focus due to its central geographical position and adjacent to several countries of the Southern Cone. Che Guevara prepared his guerrilla focus in Bolivia by bringing large amounts of money, infiltrating weapons and obtaining the necessary supplies in a short period of time.

On November 7, 1966, Guevara with four companions, entered incognito in Bolivia in flight from Brazil to the town of El Alto, and from there he went to the camp in the gorge of Ñancahuazú. His guerrilla would be integrated mostly by Cubans, most of them senior army officers of the regime. Communications was established with the Castro regime through a high powered radio, used to broad-cast and receive coded messages.

On March 23, 1967, in El Angosto (The Narrow), the guerrilla surprised a unit of the army causing numerous casualties to it. On April 10, a Bolivian army squad was ambushed by the guerrillas, which inflicts more than 20 casualties to it; on the 15th and 19th, other combats ware held and on the 26th, a bloody battle took place favorable the guerrilla.

Che in his “Message to the Tricontinental”, written when he left Cuba and published in April 18, 1967, wrote: “Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy….How close and bright would the future appear if two, three, many Vietnams flowered on the face of the globe, with their quota of death and their immense tragedies.” He use incitement to violence revolution and hatred as a means to justify terrorism.

Che divided his force and they were unable to reunite again. During May and June took place some inconsequential engagement with the Bolivian army units. On July 6, Che guerrilla attacked a small army post in the town of Samaipata. The raid was a publicity coup for Che, and confirmed the he was leading the guerrillas.

On August 30, an army patrol ambushed and destroyed the other guerrilla group at Vado del Yeso, Rio Grande. The underground network members of the guerrilla in la Paz were arrested. On September 26, Che and his men reached La Higuera, a village near the Rio Grande. The army unit ambushed the group as they fled La Higuera, and killed three of them. Che in his Bolivian Diary wrote: "The Army is showing more effectiveness in its action and the rural masses do not help us in any way and they become informers”

On October 8, Che’s forces were trapped in the Quebrada de Yuro, and when they fled, the Bolivian Ranger battalion killed six men and captured three, among them Che, that at the time of being taken prisoner, shouted to his captors in Bolivia, “Don’t shoot, I’m Che, I’m worth more to you alive than dead.” On October 9, the ranger received order from the high command to execute the three prisoners and they were shot. The guerrilla failed in Bolivia because lack of popular support.

Puerto Rico

Filiberto Ojeda, delegate of the Movimiento Armado Puertorriqueño Auténtico to the Tricontinental conference in Havana, became Castro's key link with all of Puerto Rico's underground. After the Tricontinental, Ojeda, Rabell and Pagán, met with Castro and agreed to the foundation of the Revolutionary Armed Independence Movement (MIRA), a terrorist organization backed with arms and money by the regime.

In April 10, 1968, a nationalist squad detonated several grenades in the Condado shopping mall and in the offices of IBM Corporation, and in July MIRA commandos destroyed the Bayamón Sears store. In January 1969, Luis Ferré was swear in as Governor of Puerto Rico, and the MIRA initiated a terrorist campaign by placing bombs in banks, hotels, police stations and government installations. In March 1970, took place an attack on U.S. Marines in the Bay of San Juan, and machine-gunned the family housing buildings of the personnel of the U.S. base in Buchanan.

Around the third quarter of 1970 the terrorist organization was dismantled by a massive raid of its members. Documents of the judiciary noted how Rabell, Ojeda and Pagán instructed those who were sent to New York on how to arrange contacts with the Cuban United Nations representation, whenever weapons and explosives were needed. Ojeda was arrested by the police, who skipped bail and disappeared.

In 1974, Ojeda went back to New York and regroup the dissimilar terrorist groups into the Arm Forces for National Liberation (FALN). The FALN committed numerous bombing attacks from 1974 until November 3, 1976 in the U.S. The New York Times reported in 1977 that, “of the groups that were formed in 1974, the FALN have been responsible for 49 bomb sabotages, resulting in 4 deaths and 65 injuries.” Ojeda remain hidden at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations in New York until 1976, when he returns clandestinely to Puerto Rico, where he establish an armed wing of the FALN, name Macheteros.

On May 1976, Governor Hernández Colón, accused the Castro regime of sponsoring terrorist activities in Puerto Rico, by training and aiding terrorist to overthrow the government. Later on 1976, he accused Castro of being the coordinator behind the Dominican group that robbed several banks on Puerto Rico to finance terrorist activities. One of the robbers confessed that he has spent several years in Cuba being train in guerrilla tactics. The explosive material, arms, communication equipment, police uniforms and other evidence confiscated from the Dominicans, was determined that have been supplied by the Castro regime.

The Macheteros begun their activities in 1978. On August they killed a police officer in the town of Naguabo, In October, they stole ammonium nitrate in bags, dynamite, cartridges, detonators and wicks, from the regional public works warehouse in the town of Manatí. In December 1979, they ambushed a U.S. Navy bus, killing two marines and injuring nine. On January 12, 1981, they destroyed nine Air National Guard planes with bombs in the military airport in Isla Verde, and on March 15, they left a bomb in the trunk of a car parked in the basement of the convention center in Condado, where a conference by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was announced. The attack was not consummated when the detonating mechanism failed.

On October 30, 1983, the Macheteros fired an anti-tank rocket LAW-M-72 against the FBI offices located on the fifth floor of the federal building in San Juan, and on January 25, 1985, they launched a rocket attack on the U.S. Courthouse in San Juan. During the investigation of the Wells Fargo Bank robbery the FBI discovered “roomfuls” of weapons, which includes U.S. rocket launches and M-16 submachine guns left behind in South Vietnam, were recovered by the Viet Cong, send to Cuba and then shipped to Puerto Rico. These arms were used by the Macheteros in their attacks in Puerto Rico. Also were discovered documents about attacks with bomb and political assassinations plots. In September 1985, the FBI announced the arrest in Puerto Rico of Ojeda and 11 senior Macheteros leaders. This delivered a devastating blow to the Macheteros.

El Salvador

In 1980 Handal, head of the Armed Forces of Liberation (FAL), went to the Soviet bloc on a trip arranged by Cuba and the USSR, where he would request material assistance for the guerrilla of El Salvador. Cuban military advisors trained the guerrillas of El Salvador and Guatemala in the Nicaraguan airport of Punta Huete. Many of the documents captured to the Salvadoran guerrillas in the 1980 offensives are in reality operational reports directed to Piñeiro, the head of the Cuban security apparatus. Between October 1980 and February 1981, Nicaragua was the gateway for a massive transfer of military equipment from Cuba to the Salvadoran rebels. Castro played a key role in coordinating the acquisition and delivery of arms from Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Eastern Europe through Nicaragua.

On January 10, 1981, the Salvadoran guerrilla launched a “final offensive”. The antigovernment forces could not overthrow the government due to little popular support. In the same month, the Honduran authorities discovered numerous caches full of weapons, from the arsenals that the Americans had left in Vietnam, whose destination was the Salvadoran guerrillas. Since 1981, the Castro regime has been monitoring in detail the largest operations in El Salvador, such as the destruction of the Puente Dorado in October 1981 and the sabotage at the Ilopango air base in January 1982.

At the beginning of 1982, the supply of armaments by Cuba and Nicaragua increased remarkably. The guerrilla efforts to boycott the elections also failed when 80 percent of the population eligible to vote went to the polls, showing their repudiation to the revolutionary violence. In December 1983, Farabundo Martí forces specially trained in Cuba captured the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade, in El Paraíso. In January 1984, the guerrilla underground destroyed the Cuzcatlán Bridge on the Pan-American Highway, causing a serious setback to the country's economy.

On June 19, 1985, the Central American Revolutionary Workers Party (PRTC) launched a terrorist attack on a sidewalk café in the Zona Rosa district of San Salvador, killing at least 13 people. In October 1985, the Farabundo Martí kidnapped the daughter of President Napoléon Duarte; her rescue was negotiated through the Sandinistas: the daughter of the Salvadoran president in exchange for 104 wounded guerrillas who would be sent to Havana.

The war reached a stalemate, with neither side capable of defeating the other. A regional peace accord was approved in August 1987 in Guatemala, calling for amnesty measures in each of the five Central American countries. On October 28, 1987, a general amnesty law was passed by the National Assembly, covering “politically relate crimes”.

In order to support the November 1989 offensive, Castro asked the Sandinistas to send SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles. But the mission was frustrated when the first plane that moved them had an accident when landing and fell into the hands of the Salvadoran army.

In the congressional election of March 1988, ARENA won 31 of the 60 seats in the Congress, and in the presidential election held on March 1989, Alfredo Cristiani was elected President with 53.8% of the vote. The FMLN dissatisfied with the results began a campaign of selective assassinations against political and military officials, civil officials, and upper-class private citizens. In November 11, 1989, the guerrilla initiated the ‘top offensive’ with attacks all through the city of San Salvador, which lasted until December when the arm forces took control of the situation. Armed guerrillas stormed the Sheraton Hotel and held more than 100 people hostage. Eventually the guerrillas slipped away from the hotel. Many people from both sides, including civilians, died during the offensive.

Castro saw his aspiration of a revolutionary triumph in El Salvador failed when the civil war was stabilized and in April 1990, the parties agreed to negotiate an end the conflict under United Nations mediation. The Government of El Salvador and the leftist guerrillas who have fought to overthrow it for more than a decade announced in January 1, 1992, a comprehensive plan to end their civil war. The Salvadoran Civil War, which lasted for 12 years with more than 75,000 dead, over 7,000 missing and $1.66 billion in economic losses, finally ended on January 16, 1992 with the Chapultepec Peace Accords.

In the Ibero-American summit that took place on November 2000 in Panama, Castro accused the Flores government of protecting anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles in his territory. The President of El Salvador Francisco Flores, in response to the accusations of Castro said: “And that is why Mr. Castro it is absolutely intolerable that you, involved in the death of so many Salvadorans, you who trained so many people to kill Salvadorans, accuse me of being involved in the case of Luis Posada Carriles.” Castro did not answer, remained silent.

Honduras

In January 1981, the Honduran authorities discovered numerous hiding places full of weapons, coming from stockpiles that the Americans had abandoned in Viet Nam, whose destination was the Salvadoran guerrillas.

On September 23, 1981, the Lorenzo Zelaya squadron of the MPL-C, machine-gunning the private vehicle assigned to the American advisory personnel in Tegucigalpa. In November, the Honduran authorities carried out an extensive persecution of opponents throughout the country that resulted in the capture of documents and compromising statements of many detainees that included, in addition to nationals, Nicaraguan and Uruguayan. Members of other Honduran guerrillas groups that carried out kidnappings of aircrafts and individuals in the period from 1981 to 1982 also received a sanctuary in Cuba.

At least on three occasions since mid-1983, rebel groups trained in Cuba attempted to infiltrate the country. The Castro regime plan to consolidate a military uprising in Honduras between 1983 and 1984 were crushed by the security units and the army was able to contain the activity of the third wave introduced at the end of 1986.

In July 1983, an opposition group of 96 Hondurans penetrated the Olancho area to install a base of operations. These young men had finished their military training in Cuba. These young men had finished their military training in Cuba. The Honduran army intercepted the group decimating it and capturing the rest. On September 18, the head of the guerrillas, José Reyes Mata, who had fought under the command of Che Guevara in Bolivia, fell in combat in the hills of Olancho. Between August and September 1983 around 21 fighters surrendered to the authorities. In their depositions they detailed the way in which they traveled to Cuba to train in a school known as 'Campo P-30', specialized in tactics, communications, evasion, weapons and explosives.

In July of 1984, another insurgent company trained in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and veteran of the Nicaraguan war, was infiltrated in the province of El Paraíso. Once again the Honduran security forces acted quickly and the contingent was surrounded and captured in October of that year.
Members of the group led Honduran authorities to several arms caches and subversive groups in the Comayagua area. In March 1986, the army reported a confrontation with guerrillas in the mountains of the Sierra Nombre de Dios, and in October a new confrontation took place in La Ceiba.

On January 25, 1989, MPL-C guerrillas ambush and killed the ex-chief of the Armed Forces Álvarez Martínez. On August 15, 1990, the guerrillas assaulted a banking agency, and in the confrontation 6 guerrillas and 5 soldiers died. Rafael Calleja, president from 1990 to 1994, applied an amnesty policy to end the armed conflict. In April 1991 the RPF guerrillas decided to abandon the armed struggle and join the political process. Castro's support for the guerrillas to take power failed.

Grenada

Maurice Bishop, leader of the socialist New Jewel Movement (NJM), in March 13, 1979, seized power in a bloodless coup against the democratically elected government. He suspended the constitution, proclaimed himself Prime Minister and refused to celebrate new elections. Already in 1980, hundreds of Cubans ‘advisers’ were deployed in Grenada. In the first half of May, 1982, a delegation of senior officials of the NJM visited Cuba. The idea was to replicate Castro’s model in Grenada.

In July 1983, Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro agreed to work in the development of 24 joint projects in different areas. The construction of an international airport in the southwest tip of the Island was initiated. The 9,000 foot length runway under construction by Cuban paramilitary forces will be able to handle the larger Soviet Union military aircrafts, facilitating the transportation of weapons and insurgents from Cuba to the guerrillas in Central America and expand its influence in the region, becoming de facto a military airbase. In December 1981 Selwyn Strachan, Minister of Mobilization, announced that “the airport would be used by Cuba to transport his forces to Africa and by the Soviets for military purposes. Liam James, chief of security of the NJM, in March 1983 wrote on his notebook, “The Revolution has been able to crush Counter-Revolution internationally, airport will be used for Cubans and Soviet military.”

On October 12, 1983, Bishop was deposed and arrest by his Deputy Prime Minister of the NJM Bernard Coard. A few days later Bishop was liberated by a large crowd of his sympathizes. He and his supporters head toward Ford Rupert, the army headquarters where he intent to talk to the nation. Before they could consolidate their support, were attack by the army and fire upon killing many people. Bishop and several of his close supporters were captured and executed.

On October 21, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and the nations of Barbados and Jamaica, requested the United States intervention in Grenada. In October 25, the U.S. military started the attack by air-dropping troops at the new airport at Point Salines. The main objectives of the invasion were to capture the airport and rescue of the U.S. medical students at the True Blue Campus of St. George's University.

At the time of the invasion, there were 700 Cubans paramilitary forces on the island under the command of Colonel Pedro Tortoló. Castro described them as construction workers, but in reality they were special forces and combat engineers. He gave the order not to surrender under any circumstances. The antiaircraft batteries at the Punta Salinas airfield were in the hands of the Cuban military and opened fire on the U.S. paratroopers.

The U.S. Ranger Regiment attacked the Cuban entrenchments and after several hours of battle overrun the positions capturing more than 600 Cubans. The Rangers cleared the air strip of obstructions and transport planes were able to land. On the following days over 250 U.S. students were rescued. The Cuban weapons captured in Granada were sufficient to equip six battalions. Cuban forces sustained 25 killed, 59 wounded, and 638 combatants captured. All the Cuban forces were eventually returned to Cuba.

The events at Grenada were a failure for the Castroit regime. In November Castro received Colonel Tortoló and Cubans troop like heroes. He later blame others for the failure. Tortoló was court-martialed, stripped of rank and sent to Angola as a private, along with most of his Grenada command, and the Interior Ministry’s foreign intelligent chief was dismissed for his intelligent failure in Grenada.

Since Castro assumed command in 1959 up to 1990, around 25,000 people from different continents and ideological affiliations, including 10,000 Latin Americans, received training in guerrilla warfare and terrorism in Cuba. It is estimated that another 20,000 individuals have taken political indoctrination courses.
By the late 1980s the Castro regime had provided funds, training and armaments to over 20 terrorists and guerrilla groups in Latin America. These groups with the support of the Castro regime have murdered thousands of men, women, and children. From 1980 to 1986 the Soviet Union provided the Castro regime with weapons valued around $4 billion free of charge to replace the ones given to the Latin America guerrillas. The Castroit regime remain unapologetic and continue to support international terrorism. The death and sadness caused by the regime and its agents cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.

Fact 3. "He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon."

According to the Cuba Archive (Cuba Archive – Helping Cubans attain their rightful freedoms, foster a culture of respect for life and the rule of law, and honor the memory of those who?ve paid the highest price.) work-in-progress report close to 8,000 documented deaths and disappearances, of which 7,325 are attributed to the Cuban state during the Castro dictatorship; 382 cases are attributed to the state under Raúl Castro, since July 2006, including 51 extrajudicial killings (reported or suspected), 120 from denial of medical care or health reasons, and 52 suicides.

Non-Combat Victims of the Castro Regime:
January 1, 1959 to December 30, 2017

Documented Cases
Firing squad executions 3,121
Extrajudicial killings not in prison 1,231
Missing and disappeared 1,046
Combat fatalities or Missing in Action 1,295
Other death (accidents, in prison, medical negligence, etc.) 1,244

Total documented cases 7,937

Fact 4. “He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.”

The first concentration camp established in Cuba, was set up in Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Pinar del Río Province, at the end of 1960 by Che Guevara. There were confined people who had committed no crime. About the camp Che said: “We only send to Guanahacabibes those doubtful cases where we are not sure people should go to jail…people who have committed crimes against revolutionary morals, to a lesser or greater degree..., and in other cases not those sanctions, but rather to be reeducated through labor. It is hard labor, not brute labor, rather the working conditions there are hard but they are not brutal.”1 These ‘crimes’ involved drinking, vagrancy, disrespect for authorities, laziness and playing loud music.

1. Jorge S. Castañeda, Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, Vintage Books, New York, 1998, p. 178
[Ernesto Che Guevara, Actas del Ministerio de Industrias, Obras completas, vol. 7, Ministerio del Azúcar, Habana, p. 166.]

Sandokan said:

Grenada

Maurice Bishop, leader of the socialist New Jewel Movement (NJM), in March 13, 1979, seized power in a bloodless coup against the democratically elected government. He suspended the constitution, proclaimed himself Prime Minister and refused to celebrate new elections. Already in 1980, hundreds of Cubans ‘advisers’ were deployed in Grenada. In the first half of May, 1982, a delegation of senior officials of the NJM visited Cuba. The idea was to replicate Castro’s model in Grenada.

In July 1983, Maurice Bishop and Fidel Castro agreed to work in the development of 24 joint projects in different areas. The construction of an international airport in the southwest tip of the Island was initiated. The 9,000 foot length runway under construction by Cuban paramilitary forces will be able to handle the larger Soviet Union military aircrafts, facilitating the transportation of weapons and insurgents from Cuba to the guerrillas in Central America and expand its influence in the region, becoming de facto a military airbase. In December 1981 Selwyn Strachan, Minister of Mobilization, announced that “the airport would be used by Cuba to transport his forces to Africa and by the Soviets for military purposes. Liam James, chief of security of the NJM, in March 1983 wrote on his notebook, “The Revolution has been able to crush Counter-Revolution internationally, airport will be used for Cubans and Soviet military.”

On October 12, 1983, Bishop was deposed and arrest by his Deputy Prime Minister of the NJM Bernard Coard. A few days later Bishop was liberated by a large crowd of his sympathizes. He and his supporters head toward Ford Rupert, the army headquarters where he intent to talk to the nation. Before they could consolidate their support, were attack by the army and fire upon killing many people. Bishop and several of his close supporters were captured and executed.

On October 21, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and the nations of Barbados and Jamaica, requested the United States intervention in Grenada. In October 25, the U.S. military started the attack by air-dropping troops at the new airport at Point Salines. The main objectives of the invasion were to capture the airport and rescue of the U.S. medical students at the True Blue Campus of St. George's University.

At the time of the invasion, there were 700 Cubans paramilitary forces on the island under the command of Colonel Pedro Tortoló. Castro described them as construction workers, but in reality they were special forces and combat engineers. He gave the order not to surrender under any circumstances. The antiaircraft batteries at the Punta Salinas airfield were in the hands of the Cuban military and opened fire on the U.S. paratroopers.

The U.S. Ranger Regiment attacked the Cuban entrenchments and after several hours of battle overrun the positions capturing more than 600 Cubans. The Rangers cleared the air strip of obstructions and transport planes were able to land. On the following days over 250 U.S. students were rescued. The Cuban weapons captured in Granada were sufficient to equip six battalions. Cuban forces sustained 25 killed, 59 wounded, and 638 combatants captured. All the Cuban forces were eventually returned to Cuba.

The events at Grenada were a failure for the Castroit regime. In November Castro received Colonel Tortoló and Cubans troop like heroes. He later blame others for the failure. Tortoló was court-martialed, stripped of rank and sent to Angola as a private, along with most of his Grenada command, and the Interior Ministry’s foreign intelligent chief was dismissed for his intelligent failure in Grenada.

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Grenada was an invasion of British Territory for which Ronnie Raygun got his wrist slapped by the great she-elephant Thatcher herself.
The pretext of "saving" US students was given the lie by the only bullet scars on their dorm walls being on the seaward side where the invaders came ashore.

Manc Skipper said:

Grenada was an invasion of British Territory for which Ronnie Raygun got his wrist slapped by the great she-elephant Thatcher herself.
The pretext of "saving" US students was given the lie by the only bullet scars on their dorm walls being on the seaward side where the invaders came ashore.

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Not one word about the Cubans slaughtering Grenadians... Just an attempted slap at President Reagan.

Typical.

Reagan didn't request permission to invade and push put the Cubans.

Waaaah



The embarrassment and humiliation have, in fact, been known for years – Thatcher was frank about them in her memoirs. But only now do we see how carefully Washington kept its supposedly close ally in the dark over plans which, as British officials noted bitterly, had been in development for a long time.

The relationship had, of course, been profoundly unequal for decades; it was only through guile and force of personality that Thatcher bent Reagan to her will over the Falklands invasion and thus gave the world the impression that the relationship was far more equal than it really was. But the Grenada debacle exposed more than British weakness; it revealed Britain’s bizarre blindness both to the real dangers of the Caribbean becoming a Soviet lake, and to the improbability, 20 years after the Cuban missile crisis, of Washington standing by and allowing that to happen.

Today, more than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is strange to realise how easy-going the Conservative British government was about events such as those in Grenada, where an “ultra-Leninist clique” closely linked to Moscow murdered the elected prime minister. Whitehall probably regarded them all indiscriminately as daft islanders who could readily be brought to heel if need be; in any case, they were thousands of miles away, and doubtless loyal to the Queen. It was a shock for them to realise that the US saw it all rather differently.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...n-of-grenada-shows-they-were-not-8741830.html

The Guanahacabibes camp was the forerunner of the UMAP, Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción (Military Units to Help Production), concentration camps stablished by the Castro regime in Camagüey Province. These camps were in operation from November 1965 to July 1968. In November 26, 1963, the regime approved law 1129, which established the Obligatory Military Service (SMO). The regime alleged, as a justification, that those disqualify to serve in the military service would be sent to the UMA camps. In reality, the regime sent to those camps dissidents, Catholics, Baptist, Methodists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Santería practitioners, priests, artists, intellectuals, gays, lesbians, prostitutes, pimps, hippies, drug addicts and anyone considered anti-social. According to Tahbaz, former Cuban intelligence agents have estimated that approximately 35,000 people were interned in the UMAP camps. Some died from torture, others committed suicide, were rape, beating, mutilated and many were traumatized for life, as shown in Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez Leal 1988 award-winning documentary Improper Conduct that recorded the testimonies of victims and witnesses.

The Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and gays were victims of the worst treatment at the UMAP camps. A poster placed at the entrance to the forced labor camps, where homosexuals were confined, read: “The work will make you men", replica of the slogan “The work will make you free” used in the Nazi concentration camps. The regime intended to correct the homosexual behavior with rigorous work, which it considered a social deviation.