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#056 New York Times’ Radical Distortions and Fabrications with Ashley Rindsberg, Author of “The Gray Lady Winked”

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The Myth of Fidel Castro

In the late 1950s, Fidel Castro was kind of irrelevant. Like he had no men, no guns, no money, hiding out in mountains. And a New York Times reporter named Herbert Matthews gets hold of this information and goes on an expedition into the mountains to track him down. He then declares him to be this like, you know, messiah of democracy that was going to save Cuba from the Batista regime.

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