Cuba, Russian Roulette of America

Paperback, 187 pages, NOT ex-library. Limited signs of gentle wear, a crease on first pages, rubbing to cover edges. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Spine remains uncreased. -- Something of apparent little importance was happening in a small Caribbean island on the morning of December 31, 1958. Later, however, it shook world opinion and caused the exodus of almost a million of its inhabitants. The name of that island, Cuba. The event was the downfall of General Fulgencio Batista's regime, overcome by the revolutionary Commander Fidel Castro. These men carried out a bloody terrorist plan that had brought panic to the Island. Promising welfare and prosperity for the Cuban people, Fidel Castro became the man of the day, benefactor of the humble and helpless. Such was the mass fanaticism, that many intelligent and well-learned individuals joined the Revolution. Castro was depicted by a certain artist as the Resurrected Christ. Actually, it wasn't precisely Christ who had resurrected in Cuba. My father was one the countless followers and supporters and supporters of the Revolution. So openly had he cooperated with Castro that in several occasions Batista's Police had searched his business premises. -- Dr. Julio Antonio Marmol was born in 1947 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, he followed in the footsteps of his father, Leonardo del Marmol in his love of freedom and justice. His father, one of the financiers behind Fidel Castro's Revolution, had been motivated by an outrage over the excesses of the previous dictatorship of General Batista. -- Contents: Introduction; The Little Commander; Communism: The Destruction of the Family; Communist Scholarships [Literacy Campaign]; Sabotages; Simulated Madness; Aguila 70; The Escape; My Creed. …