Humberto Fontova

b. 1954, Havana · Cuban-American author, columnist & polemicist

Humberto Fontova is a Cuban-American author and conservative political commentator. He was born in Havana in 1954, and his family went into exile in New Orleans in 1961. He has written prolifically against Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, including the 2007 book Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him. His 2004 article “Che Guevara: Assassin and Bumbler” is the source Wikiquote gives for this quote.

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“To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate”

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