HUMBERTO FONTOVA: JANE FONDA’ S REGRETS
JANIE RECENTLY REVEALED TO HUFFPO THAT SHE USED TESTOSTERONE TO REV UP HER LIBIDO
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/08/jane-fondas-biggest-regret/
A new biography of Jane Fonda by Patricia Bosworth reveals a lifelong lament by the famous actress: “My biggest regret” Fonda is quoted as saying during a “feminist consciousness-raising session,” according to the book’s account, “is I never got to f*** Che Guevara.”
In case you read Frontpage, Ms. Fonda, here’s some consolation: “I used to call him El Gallo (the rooster),” recalled Carlos Figueroa, who was Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s adolescent friend in Alta Gracia, Argentina. “I’d be visiting him and eating in his family’s dining room and whenever the poor servant girl would enter Ernesto would promptly grab her and force her to lay on the dining room table where he’d have rapid intercourse with her. Immediately afterwards he’d throw her out and continue eating as if nothing had happened.” (Many of Ms. Fonda’s feminist “consciousness-raising” fans likely consider much less to be rape.)
“Es un gallo—un gallo! (He’s a rooster!—rooster!),” complained a scowling Berta Gonzalez a few years later upon emerging from her Mexico City bedroom in the summer of 1955. This was shortly after Che’s Motorcycle Diary trip, when the hobo Ernesto Guevara was scribbling unreadable poetry and mooching off women in Mexico City, where he met Fidel and Raul Castro. Berta Gonzalez was a Cuban exile in Mexico at the time.
Gallo, as you might have guessed, is a common pejorative by Spanish-speaking women against men who terminate carnal encounters prematurely.
Alas, the reaction of the feminist listeners to Ms. Fonda’s above-mentioned confession is not mentioned in Bosworth’s book. But we can guess. After all, feminist swooning over Cuban Stalinism started early, and by the feminist movement’s very founders.
“Not only is [the Cuban Revolution] a great success but an example for the rest of the world,” gushed Simon De Beauvoir in March 1960. Her bellhop, Jean Paul Sartre, was not to be outdone. He crowned Che Guevara “the era’s most perfect man.” These “intellectual” hyperventilations of 1960 set the tone for future ones issued by everyone from Maxine Waters to Jimmy Carter, from Ted Turner to George Mc Govern, and from Barbara Walters to Andrea Mitchell.
“Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly–even paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure,” said NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
Alas, Cuban feminists view the Cuban Revolution somewhat differently from Hollywood, Georgetown and Manhattan feminists. When feminist icon Barbara Walters sat quivering alongside Fidel Castro in 1977, cooing: “Fidel Castro has brought very high literacy and great health-care to his country. His personal magnetism is powerful!” dozens of Cuban feminists suffered in torture chambers within walking distance of the hyperventilating Ms. Barbara Walters.
“They started by beating us with twisted coils of wire,” recalls former political prisoner Ezperanza Pena, today in exile. “I remember Teresita on the ground with all her lower ribs broken. Gladys had both her arms broken. Doris had her face cut up so badly from the beatings that when she tried to drink, water would pour out of her lacerated cheeks.”
“On Mother’s Day they allowed family visits,” recalls Manuela Calvo, also in exile today. “But as our mothers and sons and daughters were watching, we were beaten with rubber hoses and high-pressure hoses were turned on us, knocking all of us to the ground floor and rolling us around as the guards laughed and our loved-ones screamed helplessly.”
“When female guards couldn’t handle us male guards were called in for more brutal beatings. I saw teen-aged girls beaten savagely, their bones broken, their mouths bleeding,” recalls prisoner Polita Grau.
The gallant regime co-founded by Che Guevara jailed 35,150 Cuban women for political crimes, a totalitarian horror utterly unknown — not only in Cuba — but in the Western Hemisphere until the advent of the very Castro regime that was found so “magnetic” by Barbara Walters, Andrea Mitchell, Diane Sawyer, Jane Fonda, etc. Some of these Cuban ladies suffered twice as long in Castro’s gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s.
Their prison conditions were described by former political prisoner Maritza Lugo. “The punishment cells measure 3 feet wide by 6 feet long. The toilet consists of an 8 inch hole in the ground through which cockroaches and rats enter, especially in cool temperatures the rat come inside to seek the warmth of our bodies and we were often bitten. The suicide rate among women prisoners was very high.”
Upon the death of Raul Castro’s wife, Vilma Espin, in 2006 the Washington Post gushed that “she was a champion of women’s rights and greatly improved the status of women in Cuba, a society known for its history of machismo.” Actually, in 1958 Cuba had more female college graduates as a percentage of population than the U.S.
This Castroite “improvement of status” and “good life” for Cuban women also somehow tripled Cuban women’s pre-revolution suicide rate, making Cuban women the most suicidal on Earth. This according to a 1998 study by scholar Maida Donate-Armada that uses some of the Cuban regime’s own figures.
On Christmas Eve of 1961, a Cuban woman named Juana Diaz spat in the face of the executioners who were binding and gagging her. Castro and Che’s Russian-trained secret police had found her guilty of feeding and hiding “bandits” (Cuban rednecks who took up arms to fight the Stalinist theft of their land to build Soviet-style Kolkhozes). When the blast from the Castroite firing squad demolished her face and torso, Juana was six months pregnant.
Thousands upon thousands of Cuban women have drowned, died of thirst or have been eaten alive by sharks attempting to flee the Washington Post’s understanding of a nation enjoying “improvement of status” post-communism. This from a nation formerly richer than half the nations of Europe and deluged by immigrants from same.
In 1962, a Cuban Catholic nun named Aida Rosa Perez was overheard in a private conversation saying things about Fidel Castro and Che Guevara similar to (but milder than) what Jane Fonda and Joy Behar typically trumpet about Republicans. Sister Rosa Perez was sentenced to 12 years at hard labor. Two years into her sentence, while toiling in the sun inside Castro’s gulag and surrounded by leering guards, Sister Rosa collapsed from a heart attack.
The Cuban Archive Project, headed by Mrs. Maria Werlau, has fully documented the firing squad executions of 11 Cuban women in the early days of the regime. Another 219 women died from various brutalities and tortures while in prison. The Taliban has nothing on the regime co-founded by Che Guevara. So I trust you’ll excuse these Cuban ladies if they regard the “struggles” of Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda as a trifle overblown. And for many of them, though it’s utterly ignored by the mainstream media, the feminist struggle continues.
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