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But you can never guess any of that from reading the mainstream American media. As an alternative we hear fawning accounts of Castro liberating Cuba from the clutches of U.S. robber-barons and bestowing world-class healthcare and education on his downtrodden citizens. Propaganda is very importantthe heart of our struggle,” Castro wrote in 1955. These days, the idea that is as valid to the Cuban regime as ever.
History records few propaganda campaigns as phenomenally successful or enduring as Castro and Che’s. The Longest Romance exposes the whole scope of this deception; it documents the complicity of major U.S. media players in spreading Castro’s propaganda and in coloring the world’s view of his totalitarian regime. Castro’s cachet as a celebrity icon of anti-Americanism has at all times overshadowed his record as a warmonger, racist, sexist, Stalinist, and godfather of up to date terrorism. The Longest Romance uncovers this shameful history and names its major accomplices.