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

Imagine you’re holding an exercise for an anticipated, potential emergency event. Imagine if the emergency event happens during your exercise, albeit to a far lesser degree than what you’re holding the exercise for:
[The] simulation began just hours after a real U.S. Border Patrol mission picked up more than 40 Spanish-speaking migrants who happened to […]

Ah, if only it were true. It seems a water enthusiast magazine called “Wave” has published an article titled “Fidel Dies!” as a joke, for their March issue:
The most infamous dictator in the world has finally died. It seems he was human after all. His resume is perhaps one of the most concise […]

Interesting headline in the Miami Herald today: Defections might hurt Cuban team.
It was for a story I posted on earlier this week, about three Cuban boxers who escaped Castro’s tyranny for freedom. The Herald’s take on this story?
The final verdict is more than a year away, following the 2008 Olympics, but the defections of […]

A University of Tennessee mathematics major went to Cuba and he got an education you’ll never get in any classroom:
… there I was in Cuba, seeing the end result of a society that had chosen to eliminate the profit motive in favor of the collective ownership of the masses; all I could see was […]

President Bush gets it on Cuba:
Communist rule of Cuba should end when ailing leader Fidel Castro dies, President Bush said as he prepared for a Latin American tour seen as aiming to counter a regional shift to the left.
Bush’s trip, starting in Brazil on Thursday, is widely viewed as offering a counterpoint to the populist […]

I didn’t know the man, and I haven’t heard of him as one of the legendary brave who stood up to Castro at great personal risk. Nevertheless, I hope Mr. Rafael Diaz de la Rocha, who was 72 when he passed away last month, rests in peace. And my condolences to his family. […]

Not that we needed a report to let us know this. But I digress. The U.S. State Department just released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006. Here’s the State Department’s page about the report, and here’s the page on Cuba.
Surprise, surprise, the Cuba page is longer than heck. […]

The website of CBS 13 television from Sacramento, California, has a story titled “Man Who Built Raft Out Of Scraps To Sail To China.”
On the one hand, I wonder how this can be considered “news,” especially when you consider that just about every day, someone in Cuba is building a raft from scraps, […]

It’s good to see people in other parts of the country besides South Florida get an opportunity to learn what Castro is about. The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman’s website has the story of a pastor and Cuban exile who is now helping others seeking asylum in the United States:
In 1963, (now 68-year-old pastor Feliberto) Pereira, […]

Q: How do you spell “schizophrenia?”
A: “Wet-foot, dry-foot.”
Imagine missing out on freedom by a few feet of land/ocean. Compare and contrast the following stories from the Miami Herald today:
11 cold migrants arrive at toll booth
BY TIM CHAPMAN
Soaked, shivering and disoriented, two groups of migrants walked up to the Key Biscayne toll […]