Category Archives: Fidel Castro
Bernie-Hillary Debate Party
“Have a beer,” says Ed, host of the Hillary-Bernie debate party at his house. “No thanks, gave it up years ago,” I say, and walk into a living room full of revelers watching giant-screen images of foxy Megyn Kelly and happy Ted Cruz, a smiling gentleman unlike the notorious senator who’s provoked Republican colleagues to […]
Also posted in Bernie Sanders, Campaign 2016, Cuba, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jorge Ramos, Marco Rubio, Maria Elena Salinas, Muammar Gaddafi, Raul Castro, Ronald Reagan, Ted Cruz
La Cubana
This story appears in the collection “In Other Hands”
Also posted in Cuba, Employment, Ernest Hemingway, Prostitution, Sex
What Happened to Camilo Cienfuegos?
Please remember that on October twenty-sixth, 1959, at a massive rally outside the presidential palace in Havana, thousands of Cubans cheered the leader of the revolution, Fidel Castro, who launched another interminable speech. At a point when rational listeners began to tire, Camilo Cienfuegos, commander of the rebel army, arrived and stepped onto the stage […]
Also posted in Camilo Cienfuegos, Che Guevara, Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, Raul Castro
Che Lives
For months the Bolivian army, guided by the CIA, hunts Che Guevara before wounding and capturing the worn and emaciated revolutionary. He’s taken to a small, dirt-walled schoolhouse in a mountain village and his hands and feet are separately bound. That night, as asthmatic Che wheezes and writhes on the filthy floor, Bolivian officers and […]
Also posted in Bolivia, Che Guevara, Cuba
Fidel Castro v. Che Guevara
I didn’t force Che Guevara to leave Cuba. That’s yanqui propaganda designed to impugn my loyalty and judgment and decency. I’ve loved Che since meeting him in Mexico City before the Revolución and admired him more than anyone because more than anyone I’d benefitted from his extraordinary talents. He accompanied Raul and me and eighty-two […]
Also posted in Bay of Pigs, Bolivia, Che Guevara, CIA, Cuba, Dwight Eisenhower, Fulgencio Batista, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Nuclear Weapons, Russia
Fidel Recalls Benny Paret
(On a recent night I received a phone call from Fidel Castro who wanted to discuss many issues, especially Benny Paret). Fidel Castro – You’re responsible for the death of Benny “Kid” Paret. George Thomas Clark – Come on. I was nine at the time and didn’t even see his third fight with Emile Griffith […]
Also posted in Benny Paret, Boxing, Dementia Pugilistica, Emile Griffith, Gene Fullmer, George Thomas Clark
Nikita Khrushchev Explains
Don’t blame me Vladimir Putin’s grabbing the Crimea sixty years after I bestowed that lovely peninsula on Ukraine, the great Russian Breadbasket where I’d forged my political career and found a bride. Listen to my son, Sergei. He’s a wizard in computers and missiles and holds multiple advanced degrees and teaches at Brown University and […]
Also posted in Crimea, Cuba, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Final Days of Teofilo Stevenson
This story is from the collection “Death in the Ring”
Also posted in Afghanistan, Boxing, Communism, Cuba, Duane Bobick, John Tate, Larry Holmes, Michael Dokes, Muhammad Ali, Teofilio Stevenson
McCarthy Nixon Castro – Just Released
Joseph McCarthy, who started high school at age twenty, says he’s a tough and dedicated guy in the boxing ring, on icy campaign roads of Wisconsin, and in the nightmarish confines of the 1950s United States Senate where he chases and tries to destroy enemies he calls communists but are actually demons within himself. Richard […]
Also posted in Communism, Cuba, John F. Kennedy, Joseph McCarthy, Nikita Khrushchev, Russia, Soviet Union
Photos in Box
This story is part of the collection “Paint it Black”
Also posted in Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Bruce Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Elvis Presley, Germany, Google, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, McDonald's, Music, Osama bin Laden, Photography, Physics, Politics, Saddam Hussein, Short Pieces - GTC, Terrorism, The Beatles, Titanic
Richard Nixon Where Are You
Richard Nixon called his first congressional opponent a commie, in ‘fifty senatorial race painted Helen Gahagan Duglas pink before trouncing her, and as vice president under Eisenhower snuggled with Joe McCarthy. By late ‘fifties he already wanted to invade Castro’s Cuba which however imperfect had just freed itself from American lackey Batista. After losing, perhaps […]
Also posted in Communism, Cuba, Dwight Eisenhower, George McGovern, John F. Kennedy, Joseph McCarthy, Pat Brown, Politics, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Watergate
Terrorist in Miami
Those who perished in Twin Towers are confused U.S. government self-proclaimed bastion of anti-terrorism daily strokes enduring terrorist Luis Posades Carriles who in seventies blew Cuban airliner from sky killing everyone and then continued bombing and murdering when not selling cocaine and now says sleeps like baby in Miami where paints landscapes for admirers who […]
Also posted in Cuba, Florida, Luis Posadas Carriles, Miami, Poetry - GTC, Terrorism
Sam Retired in Florida
This story is from the collection “Echoes from Saddam Hussein”
Also posted in Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, Iraq, Middle East, Poetry - GTC, Saddam Hussein, Syria
Spring Break in Cuba
In the twilight of their lives the once-intransigent Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, have begun behaving in at least moderately encouraging ways. Fidel recently summoned writer Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine and told him President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran was outrageous for demanding the destruction of Israel and a nincompoop for continuing to insist […]
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Fidel Castro Announces his Comeback
A little less than a year ago my imperialist enemies were prancing in the streets of Mafia Miami as they celebrated the imminence of my death, many even claiming I was already gone. We can tell you now that I really was about dead. I had one, two, three and more intestinal operations, all unsuccessful, […]
Also posted in Cuba
Fidel Poised
Last week the imperialists again unleashed their lies, wishfully proclaiming I was either dead or incapacitated. In fact, I was neither. I was recovering remarkably well from surgery to stop intestinal bleeding. The Cuban people didn’t need to know whether I had cancer or diverticulosis or some other ailment. They only yearned for reassurance their […]
Also posted in Cuba
Fidel Castro Forever
This story is from “McCarthy Nixon Castro”
Also posted in Bay of Pigs, Communism, Cuba, John F. Kennedy, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Russia, Soviet Union
