Fidel Castro, Cuba, castro death watch, havana, habana

Today is the birthday–or more correctly, the anniversary of the birth–of José Martí.
Martí was the father of the Cuban independence movement in the 1800’s. He died tragically while fighting for Cuba’s freedom from Spain. He’s considered Cuba’s greatest national hero, akin to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in the United States.
But he was also […]

The Castro dictatorship loves to focus on anything with propaganda value, at the expense of Cubans. This time, it’s an excessive emphasis on artificially maintaining the infant mortality rate. Here, from the Miami Herald:
Darsi Ferrer, a dissident physician in Havana, doesn’t doubt the Granma report (which claimed Cuba’s infant mortality rate last year was […]

Looks as though the vaunted, so-called “world-class” (more like third-world class, IMO) healthcare system of Castro’s Cuba isn’t so healthy itself, according to an article in today’s Miami Herald:
Six Cuban doctors — two still on the island, four now in Miami — say no one should trust the country’s health statistics reported to the World […]

I found this piece called Cuba: Why I Care on Cubanology.com. It’s hard to read it without a tear in your eye especially when you realize the author–Claudia Fanelli, an Italian-American–has no reason to care about what happens in Cuba.
Here is but a small excerpt from this magnificent column:
One would think that I shouldn’t […]

Is Fidel Castro already dead?
That’s the first line of an opinion piece by Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington, as posted on CNews.com. In the piece, which is titled Speculation over state of Fidel Castro’s health, Warmington finds himself in Cuba–asking everyone from fellow journalists to Cubans on the street–what they think has happened to […]

Word is out now that one of Castro’s prized musicians–and one who enjoyed extremely rare privileges under the regime, such as having a Mercedes Benz–defected to the US late last year.
Isaac Delgado, a famous salsa star, joins the long list of musicians and other Cubans leaving Castro’s repression for freedom in America. My favorite […]

I first heard this story on Cuban exile radio in Miami this morning, then I read about it on Babalu Blog later. What “this story” is, is a report that 19 Cuban rafters landed in Key West during the wee hours of the morning.
I couldn’t find much news about this story elsewhere; I would […]

For the first time ever (although I’m not sure if by “ever,” the media means by any U.S. President, or by President Bush), President Bush mentioned Cuba in his State of the Union address last night:
We will continue to speak out for the cause of freedom in places like Cuba, Belarus, and Burma …
I […]

Chavez’s lovefest with Castro continues.
Today, Venezuela’s junior caudillo made a big point on television of pointing to a letter he received from his bosom buddy recently, according to the International Herald Tribune. From the article:
The TV camera zoomed in on the letter and on Castro’s signature in black ink. “Look closely at the strokes […]

So a bunch of leftist instigators decided to go to the pro-Luis Posada Carriles rally in Little Havana last Friday, and the foreseeable happened: they got their butts kicked (see the video here.)
In fairness, it was not El Exilio’s most shining moment, as they played right into the hands of these Chavez apologists who are […]