Table of Contents
Preface: The Connections You Don't See vii
Chapter 1 The Golden Anniversary: A Half-Century of Loyal Service 1
Chapter 2 Communist Omelet: The Unreported Cost in Life and Treasure 7
Chapter 3 The "World's Luckiest People," or So Says Newsweek 21
Chapter 4 Here Come the Sharks. Where's the Discovery Channel? 35
Chapter 5 The Discovery Channel Spins the Missile Crisis 47
Chapter 6 Castro's Running-Dogs: Herbert Matthews and The New York Times 53
Chapter 7 To Kill a Labor Leader: Manhunt in Buenos Aires 69
Chapter 8 Papa Hemingway Admires Death in the Cuban Afternoon 77
Chapter 9 Castro's "Revolution of Youth"-Imprisoning the Young 83
Chapter 10 Jon Stewart to Don Fidel: Thank You, Godfather 95
Chapter 11 Not Your Father's Hit-Men: Gangsters in Cuba Today 109
Chapter 12 How Barack Obama Tried to Lose Honduras to the Dictators 127
Chapter 13 Keep Your Pants On, Stephen Colbert. Che Wasn't That Hot 135
Chapter 14 Sickos! The Cuban Health-Care Hoax, Directed by Michael Moore 159
Chapter 15 The Cuban "Embargo"-Are You Kidding? 177
Chapter 16 "Agents of Influence"-Castro's Ladies and Men in the U.S. Media 195
Chapter 17 Barbara Walters, Charmed by the Hemisphere's Top Torturer of Women 205
Chapter 18 Dan Rather on Castro: "This Is Cuba's Elvis!" 215
Endnotes 223
Index 235