{"id":1867,"date":"2026-09-08T05:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:08:46","slug":"cuba-is-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Is Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><p><span><span>W<\/span>hen I was six years old in Cuba, our parents gave my younger brother George and me identical costumes. I remember being puzzled by this. I hadn\u2019t asked for a new costume. My Superman one still fit me fine, and went with my attitude. And wearing the same costume as my kid brother was grounds for mockery in the neighborhood \u2014 a rich Havana suburb suitable for our mom\u2019s Cuban royalty family, the Mestres. And this costume was drab \u2014 an olive shirt and pants, an ugly cap of the same color, and a stupid string black beard. I smelled a rat. And, boy, did history prove me right.<\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=1865\">The Spectator P.M. Ep. 245: Democrats Are Regretting Their Wokespeak<\/a><\/p><p><span>But at the time, the popular excitement was palpable even to a little boy. I knew something big had happened, and it seemed to be something good. I didn\u2019t know how horrible it was or how much it would change the world for the worse \u2014 and my life for the far better.<\/span><\/p><p><span>My newspaper columnist father \u2014 you might call him a pre\u2013social media influencer \u2014\u00a0 appeared upbeat. In hindsight, my patrician mother did not. Her trepidation proved justified. A few months after costume day, our whole family was on a plane to Miami, my father\u2019s name on the firing squad list.<\/span><\/p><p><span>What happened in the interim is what always happens in a Marxist revolution. A populist leader emerges, enthralls the people with words like \u201cliberty\u201d and \u201cdestiny,\u201d and then turns the country into a socialist hellhole. Today, I always snicker when the press and eminent Democrats compare Donald Trump to Hitler, knowing that for half a century they never once said the same about a dictator who spellbound crowds with long-winded screeching speeches about the Fatherland (<\/span><i><span>la patria<\/span><\/i><span>) and almost blew up the world. On the contrary, they revere him.<\/span><\/p><div><blockquote><p><strong>This article is from <em>The American Spectator<\/em>\u2019s summer 2026 print magazine. Subscribe to\u00a0<em>The American Spectator<\/em> to receive the magazine.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><p><span>My father\u2019s initial support for <\/span><i><span>la Revoluci\u00f3n <\/span><\/i><span>\u2014 hence the guerrilla costumes \u2014 could be justified if not excused. As a historian, he might have known better. Fulgencio Batista was a corrupt and ruthless dictator, yet under him Cuba became one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America, just behind oil-rich Venezuela. Remember that bit of irony since it will link the nations later. U.S. investment alone accounted for $800 million. Sure, a large cut of it went into Batista\u2019s bank account, but everyone benefited, including the vast majority of the Cuban people.<\/span><\/p><p><span>They had the fourth-highest literacy rate in the hemisphere (76 percent) and one of the finest medical systems in the whole world, ranking eleventh. Wages were uniformly high and material goods \u2014 cars, TVs, radios, phones, etc. \u2014 plentiful. I saw and heard a lot of cheerful, boisterous folks of every class on my weekend movie trips to Havana. They were always Hollywood movies, though Cuban nightlife entertainment was literally rocking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span>I couldn\u2019t attend the thriving cabarets and shows, but their music, drinking, and dancing followed my young parents home. George and I would go to bed often to the rhythm of Mambo king P\u00e9rez Prado, Mambo prince Benny Mor\u00e9, and singer Celia Cruz \u2014 sometimes Celia in person, as she was a good friend of my father\u2019s.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Dad had another friend of greater consequence, Fidel Castro. They were classmates in the Jesuit grade school Dolores, the Jesuit high school Bel\u00e9n, and at the University of Havana Law School. But while my father later talked the talk as a scholar critical of Batista, Castro walked the walk, fighting his forces in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, along with his brother Ra\u00fal and a less intellectual friend than my father, Che Guevara.<\/span><\/p><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Magazine cover depicting Uncle Sam before a crumbling Roman Colosseum.\" class=\"wp-image-1194\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8bbe2afec9941ca9c30eb6463ee802a0-791x1024.jpg\" width=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8bbe2afec9941ca9c30eb6463ee802a0-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8bbe2afec9941ca9c30eb6463ee802a0-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8bbe2afec9941ca9c30eb6463ee802a0-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8bbe2afec9941ca9c30eb6463ee802a0-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8bbe2afec9941ca9c30eb6463ee802a0.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>Subscribe to<\/em> The American Spectator <em>to receive our summer 2026 print magazine.<\/em><\/p><\/div><p><span>The rebels achieved victory on New Year\u2019s Eve 1958, and Batista then fled Havana. Castro rode a jeep into the city through jubilant street crowds. If only the people in the crowd could have foreseen the forlorn faces of their children and grandchildren on the same street generations later. They might have wept instead.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Dad had some misgivings about his old friend, but Batista was a corrupt ruthless dictator, and anything would be better than that \u2014 except of course a communist. And Fidel was no communist \u2014 or so he kept saying.\u00a0 \u201cI am not a Communist,\u201d Castro told <\/span><i><span>Meet the Press<\/span><\/i><span> in April 1959. \u201cI am not agreed with Communist[s].\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>However, that Che guy with him gave my father the creeps. He was an open Marxist and, rumor had it, a vicious killer. Surely, Fidel would sideline him now that they\u2019d won the revolution, Dad hoped. Fidel did the opposite. He made Che Guevara commandant of <\/span><i><span>La Caba\u00f1a<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0prison in Havana. And <\/span><span>the sound of firing squad riflery soon drowned out guitars in the capital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cAll executions at <\/span><i><span>La Caba\u00f1a<\/span><\/i><span> are carried out under my express orders,\u201d Che said on Cuban television. He added a couple of Guevarist mottos: \u201cEvidence is secondary\u201d and \u201cIf in doubt, kill him.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Eventually, my father had little choice but to use his column in <\/span><i><span>La Prensa Libre<\/span><\/i><span> (The Free Press) to question his old friend. He began diplomatically seeking to nudge Fidel in the right direction. He argued for open debate, a clear agenda, and no more ruling by decree. When his entreaties went unheeded, Dad hardened the criticism, most significantly in his column \u201c<\/span><i><span>La Hora de la Unanimidad<\/span><\/i><span>\u201d (Time for Unanimity).<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cFreedom of expression must extend to everyone,\u201d Dad wrote. \u201cAnd cannot be the prerogative or gift of anyone.\u201d<\/span><span> He added, \u201cThe method is old, its results are well known. Behold, the hour of unanimity is arriving in Cuba: the solid and impenetrable totalitarian unanimity.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=1863\">From Truman to Trump: Why Election Polls Keep Getting It Wrong<\/a><\/p><p><span>Dad\u2019s piece caused something of an uproar. Fidel finally responded to his missives \u2014 by shutting down <\/span><i><span>La Prensa Libre<\/span><\/i><span>\u00a0and every other independent newspaper. He didn\u2019t single out my father by name \u2014 I suppose out of old friendship \u2014 but the regime-friendly Committee of Revolutionary Freedom did, by calling for Dad\u2019s execution. And the cry echoed on the streets, \u201c<\/span><i><span>\u00a1Al pared\u00f3n<\/span><\/i><span>!\u201d <\/span><span>(\u201cTo the wall!\u201d) It was a good time to leave Cuba, and we did.<\/span><\/p><p><span>So did Mom\u2019s extended family, including her two uncles, Abel and Guar Mestre, who\u2019d controlled the pharmaceutical and broadcast industries in Cuba. They knew capitalism wasn\u2019t long for the island, or tycoons for this world. Mom\u2019s father, Luis Augusto, had died of a heart attack, so there was no investment in America.<\/span><\/p><p><span>To our parents\u2019 credit, my brother and I barely noticed the economic dive the family had taken, such as going from a mansion near Havana to a little Mackle house in Miami. We didn\u2019t learn English so much as absorb it, and in one year we spoke it better than Spanish. This opened up a\u00a0 wonderful new universe for me of literature and screen fare that shaped my life. Today, you can live your whole life in Miami or elsewhere in the country and speak no English, but not back then.<\/span><\/p><p><span>My parents had plenty of good boisterous company in the early sixties \u2014 the whole first-wave exile community. So we kids still went to sleep to Prado and Celia Cruz, with some new additions like the Twist. The visitors weren\u2019t welfare-seeking, crime-committing immigrants. They were the best-educated, most ambitious, most Catholic, most family-centric people ever to come en masse to America \u2014 and the first nail in the coffin of <\/span><i><span>la Revoluci\u00f3n<\/span><\/i><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span>A quarter million had arrived by 1962 \u2014 doctors, lawyers, architects, bankers, bakers, entrepreneurs. They took any job available, then created even more \u2014 restaurants, shops, hotels, clinics \u2014 and transformed sleepy Miami into a boom town. By the 1980s, Cubans owned a disproportionately large share of its small to medium businesses and were leaders in U.S. megacorporations like PepsiCo (Nestor Carbonell, vice president), Coca-Cola (Roberto Goizueta, chairman of the board), and Analog (Modesto Maidique, CEO). None of these men ever heard of DEI.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Meanwhile, in Cuba, Castro shirked America and went full commie. He spurned the country that had helped enrich his island and embraced the Soviet Union. \u201cI am a Marxist-Leninist,\u201d Fidel finally proclaimed. \u201cAnd shall be one until the end of my life.\u201d And the American left loved it and celebrated him. Although no Democrat did. They were still patriots back then.<\/span><\/p><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Art by Bill Wilson for The American Spectator\" class=\"wp-image-1866\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7304b1fbce397df3b2c796e17e70f898-1024x468.png\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7304b1fbce397df3b2c796e17e70f898-1024x468.png 1024w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7304b1fbce397df3b2c796e17e70f898-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7304b1fbce397df3b2c796e17e70f898-768x351.png 768w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7304b1fbce397df3b2c796e17e70f898-1536x702.png 1536w, https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7304b1fbce397df3b2c796e17e70f898.png 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><em>Art by Bill Wilson for <\/em>The American Spectator<\/p><\/div><p><span>As a little kid, I was ignorant of the geopolitical forces swirling around my birthplace, until they intruded into my new world. I learned about the Cold War the hard way, on October 22, 1962. It was unusually quiet at our house that evening, despite a bunch of Cubans in the living room. They weren\u2019t drinking, chatting, or listening to music but somberly glued to the TV set.<\/span><\/p><p><span>I recognized the handsome man on the screen as the president of the United States, looking just as grim as the audience around me. And when he spoke, I understood enough to feel fright: \u201cIt shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>The Cuban Missile Crisis ended six days later. But from then on, I knew who the bad guys were, if not that I\u2019d be fighting them my whole adult life \u2014 at least their lies and ideas. Fidel Castro embodied them, and the dreams of the left. But they were Dad\u2019s problem, not yet mine. And he did his part.<\/span><\/p><p><span>For thirty years as a Georgetown University professor of Latin American Affairs, my father was a thorn in his former buddy\u2019s side. He wrote articles and books slamming Fidel. He faced down angry Castro-worshipping students in the volatile late sixties, dismissing their beloved Che as a homicidal psychopath. He appeared on almost every network news and talk show blasting Castro\u2019s follies, such as his military incursions into Africa, where at least 2,000 Cuban troops died for nothing. He inspired one of his students, Bill Clinton, so much that the president invited him to a major White House dinner and showered him with praise.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Castro outlived my father \u2014 long enough to witness his precious Soviet Union collapse like a house of cards, then have to beg his mini-me Hugo Chavez for help. And he lived just long enough to see the ultimate threat to his power and legacy get elected president.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cAll of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro regime were done with executive order, which means the next president can reverse them,\u201d Donald Trump said shortly before Election Day. \u201cAnd that is what I will do unless the Castro regime meets our demands. Those demands will include religious and political freedom for the Cuban people, and the freeing of political prisoners.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Castro did not hear President Trump\u2019s latest announcements about Cuba \u2014 unless they were reported in hell. But his brother Ra\u00fal did. He learned that U.S. troops snatched Chavez\u2019s successor and acolyte, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, from a fortress, killing thirty-two Cuban security men in the process. He can see the oil once destined for Cuba now flowing into America. Castro, too, can parse the words of the Cuban American U.S. secretary of state: <\/span><span>\u201c[T]hey\u2019re in a lot of trouble.\u201d <\/span><span>And he can ponder Trump\u2019s three words from March: \u201cCuba is next.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=1861\">The Questions We Must Ask About Islam<\/a><\/p><p><span><strong><em>Subscribe to <\/em>The American Spectator<em> to receive our summer 2026 print magazine.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A most wonderful article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-print-summer-2026"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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