…on Che:
In case you read Town Hall, Ms. Fonda, here’s some consolation, honey: “I used to call him El Gallo (the rooster)”recalled Carlos Figueroa who was Ernesto Guevara’s adolescent friend in Alta Gracia, Argentina. “I’d be visiting him and eating in his family’s dining room and whenever the poor servant girls would enter Ernesto would promptly grab her and force her to lay on the dining room table where he’d have rapid intercourse with her. Immediately afterwards he’d throw her out and continue eating as if nothing had happened.”
“Es un gallo—un gallo! (He’s a rooster!—rooster”) complained a scowling Berta Gonzalez a few years later upon emerging from her Mexico City bedroom summer of 1955. This was shortly after his Motorcycle Diary trip, when the hobo Ernesto Guevara was scribbling unreadable poetry and mooching off women in Mexico City, where he met Fidel and Raul Castro. Berta Gonzalez was a Cuban exile in Mexico at the time.
Gallo, as you might have guessed, is a common pejorative by Spanish-speaking women against men who terminate carnal encounters prematurely.
If only that were the least of his crimes. Here’s how Cuba treated real feminists:
They started by beating us with twisted coils of wire recalls former political prisoner Ezperanza Pena from exile today. “I remember Teresita on the ground with all her lower ribs broken. Gladys had both her arms broken. Doris had her face cut up so badly from the beatings that when she tried to drink, water would pour out of her lacerated cheeks.”
“On Mother’s Day they allowed family visits,” recalls, Manuela Calvo from exile today.” But as our mothers and sons and daughters were watching, we were beaten with rubber hoses and high-pressure hoses were turned on us, knocking all of us the ground floor and rolling us around as the guards laughed and our loved-ones screamed helplessly.”
“When female guards couldn’t handle us male guards were called in for more brutal beatings. I saw teen-aged girls beaten savagely their bones broken their mouths bleeding,” recalls prisoner Polita Grau.
The gallant regime co-founded by Che Guevara jailed 35,150 Cuban women for political crimes, a totalitarian horror utterly unknown—not only in Cuba — but in the Western Hemisphere until the regime so “magnetic” to Barbara Walters, Andrea Mitchell, Diane Sawyer, Jane Fonda, etc. Some of these Cuban ladies suffered twice as long in Castro’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s.
Their prison conditions were described by former political prisoner Maritza Lugo. “The punishment cells measure 3 feet wide by 6 feet long. The toilet consists of an 8 inch hole in the ground through which cockroaches and rats enter, especially in cool temperatures the rat come inside to seek the warmth of our bodies and we were often bitten. The suicide rate among women prisoners was very high.”
But they got free health care.
But they got free health care.
And Death Panels.
The left will swear it’s news to them, and / or it’s all BS or hearsay. It’s pretty hard to ‘prove’ where you got a scar or broken bone 30 or 40 years later after all.
Fonda is an idiot.
I might have forgiven Ms. Fonda when she was an idealistic young girl. But she’s all grown up now and there’s no excuse for her childish mentality.
Perhaps somebody should dig him up for her. Doesn’t she believe in “never too late?”
I generally agree the young should be held to a lesser standard. Fonda is close to the least.
Gullible enough to be happy in Logan’s Run.
“But they got free health care.”
A friend of mine recently visited relatives in Cuba, taking advantage of an easing of travel restrictions under Obama. Everyone who visits brings things with them that their Cuban relatives can’t get. Number one class of merchandise: medical supplies. Analgesics, antiseptics, bandages, band aids, even toothbrushes.
The one alleged advantage they got is pure BS. But even if it weren’t the lament of her relatives that they couldn’t spend their lives as they wanted to (being forced to do whatever job the State wanted them to) leads me to believe that a long life span brought about by superior “health care” would be a curse, not a blessing.
Well, not to rain on any parades here, but that article you quoted is on a website that is also pushing Dick Cheney’s propaganda tome. The popup for the book greets every new visitor.
Yes, the Castro regime (including Che) were scum.
But so is Cheney.
We are all still paying for his crimes.
Oh please. If you don’t like Cheney is one thing, you’re entitled to your opinion, but comparing him to the Castros and Che is just dumb. Just because you don’t like Republicans or independents or anyone who doesn’t hold your opinion does not make them scum.
Cheney’s “death squad” was Seal Team 6 and they seem to be pretty cool now that Obama used them to assassinate Bin Laden.
Renditions, secret prisons, enhanced interrogations and nearly every other policy of the Bush administration are being used by the Obama administration. One major difference people are more likely to be killed on the spot than captured, interrogated and prosecuted.
The BDS is a bunch of BS or we would see Democrats rioting in the streets like we did for 8 years under Bush.
You’d think that after almost a half of century of living (some of which she spent as a billionaire’s trophy wife) might have convinced her that the politics of her youth were, at the very least, questionable. Apparently age does not impart wisdom.
Anyone who would compare Cheney with Che and Fidel is automatically compared to Stalin in my book.
Kevin is nothign more than a thug in waiting, a real piece of scum.
Anyone who would compare Cheney with Che and Fidel is so stupid a moron looks like Einstein in comparison. In the communist paradise of Kevin Greene’s puerile dreams he’d actually be automatic gulag material. That’s where communist regimes sent everyone they have no use for.
Kevin Greene has nothing to fear from a zombie apocalypse.
(some of which she spent as a billionaire’s trophy wife Ted Turner must not have come in first. . . .or second, to earn that trophy.
Kevin Greene and “Mike” from Townhall may be the same person.
Mike not only has a Che t-shirt; he apparently also has Che sheets.
Stalin’s useful idiots still exist in the world today. Thanks Kevin for stopping by and being an example.
Apparently age does not impart wisdom.
No, age doesn’t impart wisdom. There are plenty of old fools. Age gives the opportunity for perspective and that’s an important aspect of wisdom.
I saw a guy wearing a Che shirt in London this morning. I wanted to punch him in the mouth. He’s either a moron who thinks wearing the image of a mass murderer “freedom fighter” (who actually enslaved millions of people) is cool, or he’s someone who agrees with Che’s policies and would gladly put my family up against a wall and shoot us. Screw him and all like him.
Well, not to rain on any parades here, but that article you quoted is on a website that is also pushing Dick Cheney’s propaganda tome. The popup for the book greets every new visitor. Yes, the Castro regime (including Che) were scum. But so is Cheney.
We are all still paying for his crimes.
Well, I wouldn’t mind you paying more for Cheney’s crimes. Why don’t you buy a few of those books, Kevin? It’ll put your money in better hands.