The Longest Romance (32 page)

7
“Equal opportunity killing: Victims under age 18 of the Castro regime in Cuba,” CubaNet,
http://www.cubanet.org/refdis/05210401.htm

8
Leo Sauvage,
Che Guevara, The Failure of a Revolutionary,
Prentice Hall, 1973, p. 126

9
Letter from Paquito D‘Rivera to Kris Kristofferson and Stephen Stills, Latin American Studies, May 21, 2005

10
Dave Zimmer,
Crosby Stills and Nash: The Biography,
Da Capo Press, 2008, p. 209

11
Ibid.

12
Canek Sanchez Guevara,
Revista Proceso,
October 2004

2
A. Padilla, “The Tourism Industry in the Caribbean After Castro,” Association for The Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), June 19, 2003.
http://www.ascecuba.org/publicationsproceedings/volume13/pdfs/padilla.pdf

3
Julio Alvarado,
La Aventura Cubana,
Artes Graficas y Ediciones, 1977. pp. 794-95. Julio Alvarado was a Bolivian-born economist who served as an executive for Cuba's National Bank from 1948 to 1959. Like most of his colleagues he was adamantly anti-Batista; but the barrage of Castroite propaganda regarding economic conditions in pre-Castro Cuba inspired him to compile this 885-page statistical book in order to set the record straight.

4
Ibid.

5
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce,
Investment in Cuba: Basic information for United States Businessmen,
1956

6
Alvarado, Op. cit.

7
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Op. cit.

8
Statement by the President on United States Commitment to Open Investment Policy, The White House Office of the Press Secretary, June 20, 2011

9
Carlos Alberto Montaner,
Fidel Castro y La Revolucion Cubana,
Piscataway, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 1984

10
Kirby Smith and Hugo Llorens, “Renaissance and Decay: A Comparison of Socioeconomic Indicators in Pre-Castro Cuba and Current-Day Cuba,” The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), August 1998

11
Mario Lazo,
Dagger in the Heart: American Policy Failures in Cuba,
Funk & Wagnalls, 1968

12
Ibid.

13
Ibid..

14
Julio Alvarado, Op. cit.

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid.

17
Ileana Fuentes, “De Casa Marina a Casa Mariela,”
Diario de Cuba,
August 11, 2011

19
Lazo, Op. cit.

20
Eusebio Penalver, interview with the author

21
One of the delegates exclaimed: “Castro is a very engaging, down-to-earth and kind man, someone I would favor as a neighbor!”

1
Humberto Fontova,
Fidel; Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,
Regnery, 2005

2
Ibid.

3
Frederick Tempe,
Divorcing the Dictator: America's BungledAffair with Noriega,
Putnam, 1990, p. 192

4
Ibid.

5
Tim Weiner, “Bay of Pigs Enemies Finally Sit Down Together,”
The New York Times,
March 23, 2001

6
Georgie Ann Geyer,
Guerrilla Prince,
Little Brown & Co. 1991, p. 240

7
T. Smith,
The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution,
Random House, 1962, pp. 30–52

8
Tempe, Op. cit.

9
Alba Escobar and Nelson Rubio, “Programa Actualidad,” October 24, 2011

10
Karla Zabludovsky, “Police Find 49 Bodies by a Highway in Mexico,”
The New York Times,
May 13, 2012

11
“No end to violence in Mexico, experts say,” FoxNews Latino, May 15, 2012

12
Jess Hill and George Grayson, “Fears Mexican drug gan spreading to other countries,” ABC Radio, February 11, 2011

13
FoxNews Latino, Op. cit.

14
“Mexico investigates massacre of 72 illegal immigrants,” Associated Press, August 26, 2010

15
Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,”
The Washington Times,
April 19, 2011

16
Juan Tamayo, “Alarma por creciente influencia de Cuba en Cancun,”
El Nuevo Herald,
June 27, 2010

17
Ibid.

18
“Relacionan a Niurka con tráfico de ilegales,” Servicios Informativos y Publicitarios del Sureste (SIPSE), June 7, 2010

19
Ibid.

20
Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,”
The Washington, Times,
April 19, 2011

21
Menachem Gantz, “Hezbollah Opens Base in Cuba,” Ynet News, September 9, 2011

22
Michael Ware, “Los
Zetas
called Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel,” CNN, August 6, 2009

23
“Napolitano: Border security better than ever,” CBS News, March 25, 2011

24
Mary Ellen Resendez, ABC 15 News, June 14, 2010

25
KVOA News, “Bureau of Land Management warns motorists who travel along 1-8,” June 16, 2010

26
Resendez, Op. cit.

27
Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,”
The
Washington,
Times,
April 19, 2011

28
Ed Vulliamy
, Amexica; War Along the Borderline,
Bodley Head, 2010

29
Marc Lacey, “Escalating drug violence traumatizes Mexico's children,”
The New York Times,
October 21, 2008

30
Vera Chan, “Big Story: Mexico's six-year drug war behind the Mother's Day massacre,”
Yahoo News,
May 15, 2012

31
Ibid.

32
Jess Hill & George Grayson, “Fears Mexican drug gang spreading to other countries,” ABC Radio, February 11, 2011

1
Humberto Fontova,
Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,
Regnery, 2005, p. 50

2
“Los tentaculos de las Farc en Venezuela,”
El Espectador,
May, 8, 2010

3
Catherine E. Shoichet, “One word with many meanings translates into sports controversy,” CNN, November 17, 2011

4
President Roberto Micheletti, interview with the author

5
“The Refuseniks of Cuba,” May 20, 2012

6
Cliff Kincaid, interviewwith the author

7
“Cuba Dissident Released from Jail after Alleged Beating, Rubio Says,” FoxNews Latino, June 14, 2012

1
“Benicio Del Toro, ‘Latino Brad Pitt', wins Cannes award as ‘Che',” Agence France-Presse (AFP), May 25, 2008

2
Simon Hattenstone, “Dammit, this guy is cool”,
The Guardian,
November 28, 2008

3
“Havana Hails ‘Che' and Benicio Del Toro's Performance,”
Latin American Herald Tribune,
December 8, 2008

5
CNN Entertainment,
January 1, 2009

6
Paul Bethel,
The Losers: The Definitive Report, by an Eyewitness, of the Communist Conquest of Cuba and the
Soviet
Penetration in Latin America,
Arlington House, 1969, p. 51

7
Nestor Carbonell,
And the
Russians
Stayed: The Sovietization of Cuba,
Morrow, 1989

8
Castro Speech Database, Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas at Austin

9
Humberto Fontova,
Exposing the Real Che Guevara,
Sentinel, 2007

10
Ibid.

11
Felix Rodriguez, interview with the author

12
Roberto Martin-Perez, interviewwith the author

14
Fursenko and Timothy Naftali,
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis,
Norton, 1998, p. 87

15
Miguel Sanchez in interview with Oscar Haza, “A Mano Limpia,” America TeVe, October 27, 2009

16
Ibid.

17
Javier Arzuaga,
Confesiones de un sacerdote,
El Veraz, 2006

18
Dariusz Tolczyk,
See No Evil,
Yale University Press, 1999

19
Humberto Fontova,
Fidel; Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,
Regnery, 2005

20
Daniel Frankel & Sharon Waxman, “Veteran Hollywood/D.C. Publicist Stephen River Dies,”
The Wrap,
June 8, 2010;
http://wwwthewrap.com/deal-central/ind-column/veteran-hollywooddc-publiciststephen-rivers-dies-18154?page=0,1

21
Margarita Alarcon, “A Life Worth Living,”
The Huffington Post,
June 8, 2010;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margarittaalarcon/a-life-worth-living_b_604873.html

22
See note 4, above.

1
Juan Tamayo, “Coverage comes with price of self-censorship,”
The Miami Herald,
February 28, 2010

2
Humberto Fontova,
Fidel; Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,
Regnery, 2005

3
Rene Rodriguez, “Cuban healthcare is painted rosy in ‘Sicko,' critics say,”
The Miami Herald,
June 23, 2007

4
The Wall Street Journal,
July 23, 1999

5
Gonzalo Guimaraens, “Vacuna Cubana Contra la Menningitis Ineficacia Comprobada,”
Revista Guaracabuya,
July 2000

6
Katherine Hirschfeld,
Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898,
Transaction Publishers, 2006

7
Ibid.

8
“Megaphone for a Dictator: CNN's Coverage of Fidel Castro's Cuba,” Media Research Center, May 9, 2002

9
Ibid.

10
Melisa Scott, “Healthy in Cuba, Sick in America?” ABC News, September 7, 2007

11
“Medical Journal Exposes Cuba's Failed Doctor Diplomacy,” Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, October 2000

12
Ibid.

13
Lynn Davidson, “Did CNN Instruct Reporters to Sanitize Coverage of Fidel Castro?”
Newsbusters,
February 20, 2008

1
Humberto Fontova, Fidel;
Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,
Regnery, 2005

2
Julio Alvarado,
La Aventura Cubana,
Madrid, Artes Graficas y Ediciones, 1977

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

5
Nick Miroff , “U.S. Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are Eased,” NPR, February 6, 2012

6
“U.S. food sales to Cuba continued decline in 2011,” Reuters, February 22, 2012

7
Pascal Fletcher, “Cuba will not accept ‘IMF-imposed' debt solution,” Reuters, July 7 1999

8
“Statement issued by Geordin Hill Lewis, DA, Shadow Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa,” Politics Web, February 6, 2012

9
Juan Tamayo, “WikiLeaks: Even China complained Cuba wasn't paying its bills,”
The Miami Herald,
December 10, 2010

10
“Cuban authorities arrest British man in corruption probe,”
The Miami Herald,
April 25, 2012; see also
http://www.economist.com/node/21555590

11
Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba, May 24, 2000

12
“Defector Warns of Social Explosion in Cuba,”
The
Washington,
Post,
August 13, 2002

13
Nestor Carbonell,
And the Russians Stayed; The Sovietization of Cuba,
William Morrow & Co., 1989

14
Department of State,
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-63,
Volume X, Cuba

15
Daryl Lembke, “Cuban Spy Link to Ford, Reagan Death Plot Probed,”
Los Angeles Times,
March 19, 1976

16
“Clinton Receptive to Castro Overture to Discuss ‘Everything,'” Fox News, April 17, 2009

17
Jose Azel, “Cuba's Internet Repression Equals Groupthink,”
The Miami Herald,
February 27, 2011

18
“Cuba's communist secret agent betrays the Grand Lodge of Cuba,”
Masonic Times,
April, 2, 2011

19
Soviet Archives
of Vladimir Bukovsky

20
Paul Haven, “Cuba finds American guilty of crimes against the state,” Associated Press, March 12, 2011

21
Humberto Fontova, “Why we remain resolute against traveling to Cuba,”
The Miami Herald,
March, 10, 2012

22
Sean Reilly, “Analyst's switch stirs tanker talk,”
Mobile Press-Register,
June 9, 2008