The Future of Post-Castro Cuba: Part 1 – Ideology

Fidel Castro is a hard line, fanatical life long communist. Communism is his religion. There are countless myths regarding how and when Castro embraced radical communism. In August, l957, Ambassador Thomas C. Mann, one of our nation’s great State Department experts on Latin America, was fully aware that Castro had the closest ties with the Venezuelan communist party.

Today Castro has been quoted that he was a covert communist long before his brother Raul was recruited. The accepted myth is that Raul was recruited and later Fidel was recruited. One version of the Fidel recruitment story is that Fabio Grobart, the old Spanish Republican communist, was his “control.” When Fernando Gutierrez Barrios in 1956 arrested Fidel in Mexico City, we now know Fidel had a card from the KGB agent Nikolai Leonov. Point being Fidel has imposed a totalitarian, communist dictatorship on Cuba for over 50 years.

Communist ideology requires the masses to make great sacrifices for the future generations, except in Soviet communism after a few generations of sacrifice the results were meaningless. Communism redistributes the wealth of a nation, but communism does not create wealth. The joke in the Soviet Union was the workers pretend to work and the State pretends to pay the workers. These are reasons Soviet communism collapsed and Cuban communism will collapse. The export of the Castro Revolution in part or in its entirety has been a key objective for the Regime. As long as Fidel Castro is alive, he will do everything possible to prevent a collapse of Cuban communism. There is no one leader groomed to replace Fidel Castro, even his son Fidelito is largely unrecognized. There is absolutely no potential charismatic potential leader to replace Fidel. What is certain the Castro brothers have promoted hard line communists, inflexible old communist hard liners, dedicated to continue the Castro Cuban communist policies.

In every Latin American nation there have been and there are radical leaders and radical political parties. As a nation develops a rapidly growing Middle Class, there are rapidly rising expectations. With rising expectations, there will always be rising frustrations. It is in this atmosphere a radial revolutionary movement can take root and grow. What complicates the issue is the rise of the multi-billion dollar criminal drug trade. This creates a criminal class which often works with the armed radical groups. These armed radical groups offer protection to the criminal drug groups in a very dangerous symbiotic relation.

In many Latin American nations when there was a change in government, the tradition has been the old regime members go in exile to the United States or Europe and the new regime takes power. When Castro took power, there was something different. Under direction of the cold blooded monster Che Guevara, at least two thousand Cubans were shot, thousands were arrested, and hundreds of thousands were forced into exile. What few realize is that Che Guevara’s mother was Irish, she was a Lynch. As once explained to me by the IRA leader “Mad Dog” McGlinchy, Che Guevara had the closest ties to the militant arm of the Irish Republican Army. In the 1916 Dublin Easter Rebellion, the British caught most of the IRA leaders and shot them, with the exception of Éamon de Valera (below).

There are different stories, but de Valera either had a Cuban or US passport and for that reason the British did not shoot him. de Valera went on to be the President of Ireland and he lived over age 90. Che Guevara visited Ireland and became de Valera’s protégé. In World War 11, the British put the IRA leaders in the same prison with the PLO leaders. So as early as 1959 Che Guevara introduced a totally non-Cuban aspect to the Revolution. He instituted a radical IRA and PLO “paredon” policy to shoot, imprison, and exile the anti-regime, the “gusanos,” as they are known. This ideology was in addition to the hard core communist ideology which was also shoot, expropriate, imprison, and exile anti-regime elements. Through Che and the IRA, the Castro Revolution since 1959 has had the closest contact with all the Middle East radical terrorist groups and other international radical terrorist groups.

The Castro regime for 50 years has overtly and covertly strongly supported all radical groups, especially in Latin America. The goal is to export some version of the Cuban Revolution to take over cities, regions, departments, and nations. Castro was one of the founders of the “Foro de Sao Paulo,” which unites the 100 or so Latin American terrorist, communist, and radical groups. One purpose of the Foro is to teach radical groups how to take control of cities, states, and nations through the ballot box, avoiding many of the mistakes Cuba made. Elements of the Cuban Revolution have taken root in Chavez’s Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc. A major target for the export of Cuban type of Revolution is Mexico. When Mexico changes in a few years from an oil exporter to an oil importer, there will be potential for great financial and political instability, especially with the Drug Lords apparent increasing control in Mexico. Castro will do anything to help create a radical movement or Revolution in Mexico. Cuba is sending thousands of paid Intelligence and military advisors to Latin American nations, especially Venezuela, to insure the export of the Castro Cuban Revolution.

With the coming death of Fidel and Raul Castro, the export of the Cuban Revolution will continue.