Huber Matos

[Blackguard]

Well if we look back in time into the revolution on Cuba, we can see Huber Matos in the Castros new govermant. He helped Castro during the revolution-he brought in some military supplies. welll when Castro got into power he was the first to ask when the elections will take place. obviosly they havent happened till today so Castro decided to throw him into jail.
Huber is still alive today and he is fighting against Castro. He lives in Miami.
when the govermant was deciding what to do with Huber, Che said that they must kill their enemys or they will go against them sooner or later. However Castro only threw him in prison. and like it turned out he really went against them.
Now share your opinion with all of us!

[Ortega]

Huber Matos (and don't kill me) really wasn't such a bad guy.

I was never aware of this until I started my research on Camilo Cienfuegos (who died flying back to Havana from a meeting with Matos), but Matos was a Comandante in the Cuban Revolution. Matos was as high-ranking as Camilo and Che, and yet he has been completely forgotten by history.

A year into the Revolution, Matos began to worry. He had approved of the Revolution in early 1959, but his opinion had changed. Frustrated at what he later called Castro's "increasing totalitarian tendencies," Matos sent a letter to Castro in which he calmly announced his resignation, reccomended a replacement, and told Castro that he had "no hostile feelings toward the Revolution."

Castro, apparently, took one look at the letter and ripped it in half. He denounced Matos as a "traitor" and in his next speech announced Matos's intentions to "undermine our glorious Revolution."

Castro ordered Camilo Cienfuegos to go to Camaguey (the province governed by Matos) and to put Matos under arrest. Camilo resisted and delayed for as long as he could. Several letters uncovered recently show that (surprisingly) Camilo and Matos had very much in common. Camilo felt similarly about Castro, and worried that he, too would be arrested. In his last letter to Matos, before he finally went to Camaguey, Camilo warned Matos:

"Do not let your case go to trial. Castro will take control of the trial and he will make it terrible for you. Whatever you do, do not let Castro take your case to trial."

Unfortunately, Matos had no choice. Camilo left Camaguey suddenly and mysteriously after a meeting with Matos. He never arrested him as he had been told. Camilo's plane crashed in route to Havana, Fidel went to Camaguey personally, Matos was put on trial (which Castro comandeered, as Camilo had suspected), and Matos ended up with 20 years in prison for "treason."

After the 20 years, he left Cuba, and he lives in Miami today.

[commieboy]

black guard...did you get what che said from the movie, "Fidel"?

That sounds just like what Che said in it

[Blackguard]

No I didnt get it from a movie I read it in a paper in Che bar in Slovenia. Its a really cool bar, btw.

[commieboy]

oh, i didn't intend that to be rude, but if you do ever see "Fidel" that is like almost exactly like what the che character says.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Camilo warned Matos:

"Do not let your case go to trial. Castro will take control of the trial and he will make it terrible for you. Whatever you do, do not let Castro take your case to trial."


And how can we be sure that this is true.. That Camilo actually warned Matos?

[Severian]

Here's a past thread on Matos (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=41070&hl=matos)

I'd guess those letters are probably fabricated, unless Ortega can give a reliable source.