Dr. José Antonio Serra

It’s everybody’s battle

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today. Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" -- Ian Jay Germaine Do I hate Castro and the Communist? I been taught to love not hate. I think my feeling about them is one of nausea, only such as one feels toward a cancer that must be cut away before it spreads. Having infected Cuba, the cancer now seeks to spread elsewhere in Latin America.

Red “Ministry of Fear”

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" -- Ian Jay Germaine With anxiety in my heart, I made my applications for passports. To apply for a passport from Cuba these days is to place yourself in the category of a traitor.

Prison and the firing squad

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" -- Ian Jay Germaine I have told you of some of the ways the Communists heaped misery on their enemies and put fear in their hearts. I am now going to tell you the story of a woman who was sent to prison, and of what she found there. Because she has relatives in Cuba, I will call her by the fictitious name Maria.

Empty stomachs in “Utopia”

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" -- Ian Jay Germaine When the old manager of the Cuban farms were displaced by the Communists, production fell off at once.

Death of an organization

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" -- Ian Jay Germaine No private organization was free of attack and confiscation by the Communist regime. I was a member of the Certified Public Accountants Association. The Communists took it over. They took it over right under our noses and we couldn't do anything about it. They had the guns. We did not. Some of our directors used the only weapon they had--their voices and their pens. For this they were jailed or executed.

Terror in the street

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" --Ian Jay Germaine Not after the first telephone calls to my office and the incident of the militia girl outside my home, my wife and I were returning one night in our auto from a wedding.

Education, Communist Style

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" --Ian Jay Germaine One day, not long after the mysterious and threatening telephone calls received at my office, I walked our of my house to go to work. I saw a young militia girl in her olive green uniform sitting on the curb.

Free speech is buried in Cuba

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" -- Ian Jay Germaine Castro's propaganda was as fine as the Communist mind could devise. Each new watchword from the Communists was repeated again and again, and the propaganda network carried it to all corners of the land. Big lies constantly repeated were finally believed as truth by the public.

Big Brother is Watching

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" --Ian Jay Germaine Fear, intimidation, surveillance are the weapons used by the Communist's in Cuba today.

The attack on the Church

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today. Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" --Ian Jay Germaine My first shocking personal experience with communism occurred of all places, at church. The Castro regime considered the Catholic Church to be its most dangerous enemy.

Communism and the tomorrow that never comes

In retrospect of the past Jose' my father-in-law saw in 1962 what we have to worry about today. Jose' said "It's Everybody's Battle" --Ian Jay Germaine I began to see the attitude of the workers in my firm change under the influence of Communist poison. The militia taught them that supervisors and managers were their enemies. They now talked resentfully about being "exploited" by the company.

A knock at the door

Having known of these article's comprising "A KNOCK AT THE DOOR" for many years gives me pride for someone as reserve and timid as the writer was, acting and speaking within his abilities for his family and his country of birth and thought, Cuba. However that is not my reason for bring the words back afresh.