In a message dated 1/8/2003 10:20:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, jsq@quarterman.org writes:
Interesting. All the external information sounds familiar.
What led you to conclude he was not a communist when he came to power?
P.S., The career American ambassador, fluent in Spanish, steap in Leftist movements in Latin America, was Philip Bonsal, not "Bonsel." His memoirs are an excellent source on early US-Castro relations.