Che, Macaulay and other anti-fascists

Meet Univ. of Florida Professor Emeritus Neill Macaulay, who gloated louder about murdering innocent Cubans

 By Humberto Fontova

From Che Guevara Feb. 1957:

"I fired a .32 calibre bullet into the right hemisphere of his (peasant Eutemio Guerra's) brain which came out through his left temple. He moaned for a few moments, then died. His belongings were now mine.”

From Univ. of Florida Professor Emeritus Neill Macaulay's, A Rebel in Cuba, 1970:

"The first Batistiano was a tall handsome mulatto. He stood blindfolded before the paredon'. his hands bound in front of him. "Muchachos," he said calmly, "The only crime you are going to commit is to kill me, because I am innocent."

I stepped into the field shouted: "Ready!..Aim!--FIRE!"...the man went down and I went up to him immediately, commanding the firing squad to order arms as I walked. There were bullet holes in his shirt and he seemed dead, but I wasted no time in putting the automatic to his head and pulled the trigger. It made a neat round hole.

Next Batistiano to die was a Negro who was hauled kicking and screaming to the paredon'..I told the jailers to throw him up against the wall and get out of the way...the condemned man froze in terror when he saw his executioners arrayed before him."

"READY!" My command jolted him out of his trance.

"NO!--NO!" he cried. "Do NOT Get ready." He tried to climb the wall.

"NO!" he yelled while trying to hide behind one of the execution stakes, but the gun muzzles tracked him relentlessly.

"FIRE!" He turned his head and ducked just as the guns went off. Most of the bullets struck him in profile, tearing his nose, lips, chin and most of his cheeks. His face was transformed into a raw, red mass of flesh and bone that contrasted sharply to the smooth black skin bordering it. He lay on his back with what was left of his face turned to the firing squad. Anyone that hideously blasted , I thought, had to be dead...well" I commented to the firing squad, "it is not necessary to give to give him the tiro de gracia.

"Yes, Americano!" shouted one of my men. "He still lives! Give him the shot!" His arms and legs were twitching. His movement ceased only when a bullet from my pistol entered his skull.

Other fascinating items from professor Macaulay's memoirs:

"Escalona introduced me to Fidel as "the man who is training the firing squads." Fidel threw his head back and roared with laughter. As I stretched out my hand, he grabbed me by my shoulders and gave me a bear hug. Everybody was happy. At the University he was known as Bola de Churre. To me, however, he was very attractive."

Fidel says to give the Americano what he wants. So I selected a plot of about sixty-five acres from an immense plantation that had been jointly owned by some friends of Batista. The INRA (Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria) gave me virtually unlimited credit...there was no house on my land so I chose as a residence the former country home of Pepe Fraga, Batista's former chief of parking meters in Havana. Late in Jul my wife and infant son joined me there.

Folks, these items are not from a novel. An American mercenary joins Castro's criminal band, executes (murders, actually) Cubans without trial, steals the property of Cubans at gunpoint. Then he serves for decades as Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies at University of Florida, apparently with nobody batting an eye.

UF is a state college, so there's a good chance his salary was paid partly by his victims families. And again apparently nobody bats an eye.

Upon Macaulay's death in 2007 (some suspect from suicide) Leftist professor and documentarian Glenn Gebhard wrote: "He (Macaulay) was not a socialist or a communist, and he left (Cuba) after he realized he couldn't make a living...He was a man of action and really smart."

Che, whatever else we can say about him, seemed to actually believe in the Communist holy book. Macaulay apparently murdered Cubans for fun and profit.

You will be interested to learn that among Professor Neil Macaulay's final academic duties was to hail a book by Julia Sweig as: "the best book ever written about Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement."

Didn't prof. Macaulay have any Cubans in his classes during 20 years teaching Latin American Studies at UF?! Didn't any of them object??!!!

Can you imagine, say, a professor of Ukranian ancestry who was discovered to have served as an auxiliary Nazi executioner in 41-42, or, say, a professor of Chilean background who was affiliated with the Pinochet regime, or a professor of South African ancestry who....Oh you know what I'm getting at!