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

Take your bank accounts and stuff ‘em:
Cuba on Wednesday protested the decision by an Austrian bank recently bought by a U.S. consortium to stop serving Cuban customers.
“For us, this action is unacceptable,” Norma Goicochea Estenoz, Cuba’s ambassador to Austria, told reporters at the Cuban Embassy.
Gee, I thought socialists hated bankers. Gee, I thought nobody […]

If true, it’s great news. But then again, we’re talking about Pravda:
Six dissidents considered political prisoners by several Cuban human rights groups were released Tuesday.
It was unclear why the communist government freed the men, but a majority had served all or most of their sentences of two to four years.
On Sunday, dissident […]

Some foolish, naive British tourists thought they’d go to Fidel Castro’s Cuba and have the time of their lives.
Har, har, har. I could’ve told them…
A pals’ dream holiday turned into the trip from hell when a muck-up with flights left them stranded thousands of miles from home
Natalie Coyne travelled to Cuba with […]

If you’ve ever read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, then you’ll understand the simple formula of the communist’s repressive machine: for one to get out of prison, one must come in.
And so it is with Fidel Castro’s own Gulag. First, one goes in:
A Cuban dissident has been jailed for 12 years after […]

Went to see Scott Carmichael speak at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Florida last night. Mr. Carmichael is author of an incredible new book titled True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba’s Master Spy.
Mr. Carmichael, a counterintelligence investigator with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) hunts out moles (spies for […]

Cuba’s commie press keeps making a big deal about Fidel Castro’s health, waving photos of him around much as a school child would to prove something. But who says they’re not just photoshopping Castro’s image into another photo, or doing a Weekend at Bernie’s with a well-embalmed corpse?
Anyway, via USA Today, here’s the latest […]

Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro’s Mini-Me and dictator of Venezuela, is an insult to humanity and freedom-loving people everywhere.
Here’s an excerpt of a U.S. State Department report on the latest goings on in the oil-rich Latin American nation:
Desacato or “insult” laws, which have been used to punish journalists for challenging their country’s leaders, […]

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When will Castro die?

He’s already dead, they’re just doing a “Weekend at Bernie’s” with his carcass

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Through the eyes of a Mariel refugee:
Argelio del Valle had no plan. All his best ideas had failed him. A 29-year-old mechanic, he had dreamed up several elaborate plots to leave Cuba. But something always went wrong. In the worst instance, he and his friends were caught and put under house arrest.
So when he […]

Please indulge me today. Last night I became engaged to marry the most wonderful woman in the world and this post is dedicated to her.
The Spanish-language song Somos Novios has been bouncing around my head the last few days as I prepared for the big night when I’d ask her to marry me. […]