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The Cold War: Prelude To The Present

Playa Giron | Part 7

The Cold War: Prelude To The Present

The Daily Wire

Society & Culture, History

4.77.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

He had grown up a rich kid, believe it or not: the illegitimate son of a millionaire planter and a servant girl half his age. He was named "Truth," he was handsome and rugged, a 6'3" charismatic giant who had arrived back on his native shore with Che Guevara and handful of men on a leaky tub named "Granma." He faced off against Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama and lived to see the election of Donald Trump. His name was Fidel Castro, and he brought communism to the Western Hemisphere. He would turn his native Cuba into a launching pad for Soviet nuclear missiles, a mere 90 miles south of the Florida keys. He would impoverish his nation for six decades and die with $900,000,000 in his personal bank account. And his first and greatest test would be to repel an American-backed invasion at Playa Giron, a beach on the southern coast of Cuba at the mouth of an inlet called the Bay of Pigs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Millions of people would refer to him as that bastard for most of his long life and personal opinions aside from a legal and semantic point of view, they would be right.

0:13.0

Perennially presenting himself as a man of the people, he had nevertheless grown up on a 23,000 acre plantation and was the out of wedlock son of a man worth around $500,000 at the time of his birth on August 13th, 1926,

0:28.0

which is $4.5 million in today's money. His father was named On Hell, that would be angel to English speaking years, in photographs On Hell looks remarkably like British actor Sir Patrick Stewart who played Captain Picard on Star Trek the next generation.

0:44.0

He would go on to have five children by his first wife, Maria, called Maria the wealthy by her family due to her obsessive intent to marry into money than buying expensive clothes and find jewelry.

0:57.0

15 years younger than her husband, the date of Maria's death is not known with certainty what is known with certainty is that one of On Hell's friends introduced him to his niece named Lena, age 15. On Hell Hiredder is a maid.

1:12.0

28 years younger than her employer, Lena would go on to bear seven children for On Hell who married her after the birth of their third child, the one who would go on become not only world famous but in fact iconic.

1:25.0

On Hell would go on to have yet another out of wedlock child, his 13th with a farmhand named Generosa.

1:33.0

Looking back on the life of On Hell's son, it seems clear that the boy had learned at least two formative lessons from his father. One of them was an attitude towards the rule of law.

1:43.0

As a young businessman, On Hell would frequently sneak out in the dark of night silently crossing his initial 200 acre plot. Bit by bit, month by month, he would slowly relentlessly extend his property's boundary posts, becoming ever larger, ever closer to road and railway lines.

2:03.0

His growing prosperity seems to have come largely from his exploitation of black plantation workers from nearby Haiti. In later years, his son would recall On Hell routinely buying politicians to advance whatever legal or legal plans he had laid.

2:17.0

Now, surely this idea of the law being a flexible thing was instilled in the son by the time he was sent away to boarding school at the age of six. Frequent misbehavior at that school got him expelled and sent to a private Jesuit academy out in the country.

2:33.0

The second lesson instilled in this rebellious misbehaving child was paradoxically, an intense loading of riches and capitalism and not so paradoxically a hatred of the United States.

2:45.0

On Hell had fought in the Cuban War of Independence against Spain, a war which in 1898 finally escalated into the Spanish-American War, ostensibly fought by the United States to defend Cuba from Spanish brutality while renouncing any claims on the island.

3:01.0

While Americans had indeed helped to throw off the Spanish yoke, the initially grateful Cubans watched with growing concern as the Treaty of Paris which ended the war.

3:09.0

Transferred sovereignty of the Philippine islands from Spain to the United States which had also annexed the Hawaiian islands that same year.

3:17.0

It was to everyone's misfortune that this brief period in American history was a time of yellow journalism and manifest destiny, fake news hardly being a modern invention.

3:28.0

This short but immensely destructive period of America's empire building was a time denounced by Mark Twain and many others as America's loss of innocence and moral integrity.

3:38.0

Now certainly by the time On Hell returned from the war, heat harbored deep suspicions about the Yankee Nation to the North which hardened into open hatred after years of dealing with the U.S. conglomerate United Fruit.

3:50.0

This American war for the liberation of Cuba somehow managed to become the trigger for well over a century of distrust and mutual loathing that remains to the present day.

4:00.0

Because whatever the precise cause, something had possessed On Hell Costa Yarguese to name his eighth child Fidel, meaning truth.

4:09.0

The Russian Communist Party had also given their party newspaper the same name, truth or Pravda in Russian and that name alone would be invaluable when it was later applied to a Marxist revolutionary, the illegitimate son of a Cuban millionaire and his maid.

4:31.0

Today in the world of freedom the proudest post is, is spent on dealing with the un-Werden hands defended across the country.

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