Draggingtree Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Babalú Blog Was Batista really a “U.S.-backed” dictator? September 6, 201 5 by Humberto Fontova Try finding a media mention of Fulgencio Batista minus the prefix “U.S.-backed dictator.” See? I warned ya. And yet: “On the morning of March 10, 1952, after Batista’s coup, we decided to visit the U.S. embassy to discover the reaction to Batista’s seizure of power. The U.S. Charge d Affairs Albert Nuffer received me immediately. He was as surprised and as indignant as I at Batista’s coup. Mr Nuffer assured me that if Pres. Prio held ground in any part of the island, however small, the U.S. would not recognize the Batista regime.” (Rufo Lopez Fresquet, Castro’s first economics minister.) “The U.S. State Dept. is in our pocket,” (The Castro movement’s–“July 26th”–New York operative Mario Llerena, 1958) “Me and my staff were all Fidelistas,” (Robert Reynolds, the CIA’s http://babalublog.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 @Draggingtree US Backed? You could say they left him alone. The Mafia however...that's an entirely different story. They gave him large bags of money, and he let them do their thing. As I understand it Batista was a real piece of work. Related Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag Armando Valladares A (IMO) Must Read. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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