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

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the tragic shootdown of two simple Cessna 337s carrying four men, by sophisticated Cuban MiG-29 jet fighters. For those of you not familiar with aviation, here’s a comparison: imagine going up against someone armed with a fully automatic AK-47 and all you have are spitballs and a straw. […]

At the end of this month, I’ll be closing out the site’s first poll and posting a new one. So vote already if you haven’t!
The poll asks the following question: How are you going to celebrate when Castro dies?

As if we needed more proof that freedom of speech and the press are anathema to communist dictatorships like the one in Cuba, we get this from the Associated Press:
Cuban press authorities have told the Havana correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, the BBC and a major Mexican newspaper that they can no longer report from […]

The Huffington Post–or as James Taranto of Opinion Journal calls it, the Puffington Host–published yesterday an, ahem, “interesting” piece calling for lifting the embargo against Castro’s Cuba. I’m puzzled by the title of the piece: U.S. Policy “Disserves” the Cuban People.
I say I’m puzzled because they put scare quotes around the word […]

The Herald today writes a fawning piece on a new cafeteria on southwest Eight Street in Miami. Only, as the article itself states, this joint is the “anti-Versailles:”
With its own timbiriche window serving crispy croquetas and cortaditos with evaporated milk, Tinta (Y Café, the full name of the place) reflects the anti-Versailles of exile […]

Once again, a Miami-Dade County Public School features a pro-commie book in its library. This time, a Cuban-American mother fights back:
A Miami-Dade mother says a book she checked out from her son’s school library contains false information about Cuba and she won’t give it back.
Dalila Rodriguez checked out the book this month.
Rodriguez said, “If […]

The Associated Press let this one slip through the cracks:
CUBA: US commerce secretary sees no softening of policy toward communist-run island
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Wednesday it would be a “great disservice” for the Cuban people if the United States eased economic and political ties with the island in the […]

Hope you like the new look for our header.  The colors match those of the Cuban flag, as does the color scheme for the entire blog.

Just like Castro to bite the hand that feeds him and spits on those who help him out. After noting yesterday how Cuba was honoring–suprise, surprise–a New York Times reporter, we come to learn today, thanks to columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, that Castro once turned on said reporter, Herbert Matthews:
But the curious […]

The Castro government recently honored a useful idiot, the late but not so great New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews. Reuters published a gushing piece that reads like a Granma dispatch (it was actually released by the Cuban government’s press agency, Prensa Latina). Especially telling is a passage that reveals how useful an idiot […]