One of the many ironies of the Congo debacle was that even though Dreke’s group was composed mostly of Afro-Cubans like Víctor Dreke and Henry “Pombo” Villegas Tamayo, who was Che Guevara’s chief bodyguard, the Cuban expedition was led by a white Argentinean, Che Guevara. As Dreke explained, “I was given orders to select a group of compañeros for the mission from the Central army…. Furthermore, I was told, the compañeros were to be black—‘very black.’ That was the instruction I was given.” Interestingly, Villegas followed Che to Bolivia in the Argentinean’s final debacle in 1966. [More]
Miguel A. Faria, MD, gives us a taste of Cuba’s Eternal Revolution through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage.
So Marxists know from experience that top-down planned “vibrancy” results in catastrophic culture clash, yet they keep mandating it in every aspect of society here…
I see I’m not the only one who senses an ideological connection with the subject of my last post.
