Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam

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Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam
Reflecting on an untold story -- to honor National POW/MIA Recognition Day
September 25, 2018
Jamie Glazov

 Editors’ note: Last Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, our nation, led by our president, solemnly marked National POW/MIA Recognition Day, during which we honored all American prisoners of war and expressed our deep gratitude and respect for what they endured and -- as empirical evidence suggests -- in some cases may very well be continuing to endure. Indeed, we pay tribute to those who never returned -- and, of course, also to their suffering families. In honor of this sacred day, Frontpage has deemed it important to run Jamie Glazov's article, Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam from Breitbart's Dec. 8, 2016 issue. We hope that our leadership and citizens will take serious action on this issue. We will always remember and we will never forget.

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Castro’s Torture of American POWs in Vietnam.
By Jamie Glazov

The death of communist tyrant Fidel Castro has yielded much-deserved coverage of the monstrous nature of his tyrannical rule.

What has gone virtually unreported, however, is the direct and instrumental role Castro played in the torture and murder of American POWs in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The story of Castro’s atrocities against American soldiers in this conflict is rarely ever told, least of all by our mainstream media.

During the Vietnam War, Castro sent a gang of his henchmen to run the “Cuban Program” at the Cu Loc POW camp in Hanoi, which became known as “the Zoo.” As Stuart Rochester and Frederick Kiley have documented in their book Honor Bound in a chapter entitled “The Zoo, 1967–1969: The Cuban Program and Other Atrocities,” one of the primary objectives of this “program” was to determine how much physical and psychological agony a human being could withstand.

Castro selected American POWs as his guinea pigs. A Cuban nicknamed “Fidel,” the main torturer at the Zoo, initiated his own personal reign of terror. He was described in documents based on POW debriefings as “a professional who was trained in psychology and prison control in Russia or Europe.”

Among Fidel’s torture techniques were beatings and whippings over every part of his victims’ bodies, without remission.

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I didn't know....

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I had heard this.

One of the best books I've ever read and what is often good for inspiration is a guy who spent about 23 years in jail in Castro's Cuba:



Cuba fought in Angola Africa, besides that, I think they even had some psychological torture in Cuba's prisons from the East Germans or something. I know they are mentioned in it.

They did things like deny someone say an essential vitamin or mineral in their diet, people might develop goiters over it or all kinds of things.

If things are ever tough, Valladares's memoirs are inspirational. His case finally received international attention and he was released.

Oh, and Cuba in Vietnam? As one can see above, those Communist countries did cooperate with each other very much.