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

Just when we thought the issue of how Castro manipulates his life expectancy numbers to make Cuba look better than it really is, had been settled…
Along comes some Canuck news outfit parroting the Castro talking points:
Fidel Castro may be ailing, but he’s a living example of something Cubans take pride in - an average life […]

“The height of absurdity.”
For Granma, it’s more than a headline, it’s their entire philosophy.

Michael Moore is back in the Cuba news spotlight this week. This time, the feds are after him for breaking the Cuban embargo law:
The U.S. government has launched a probe into whether maverick director Michael Moore, whose 2004 documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11″ skewered the Bush administration, broke laws when he went to Cuba for […]

Whatever they want to call themselves–AT&T, BellSouth, HellSouth, POS–they suck.
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted in a few days, it’s because my DSL disservice was disconnected. Not for lack of payment on my part, nor because I called to disconnect. But because a new neighbor (I live in a condo) gave […]

And pray for the price to go up, WAY up:
On Tuesday, when Castro failed to make an appearance at May Day celebrations in Havana, the Herzfeld (the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund [ticker: CUBA]) fund soared 11.8 percent. This closed-end fund, which trades on the Nasdaq exchange just as stocks do, invests in stocks that […]

For readers who wonder why I’ve been silent on the recent hijacking of the airplane in Cuba by a group of young conscripts… well, I’ve been extraordinarily busy this week. I do have a “day job,” after all.
My take on the thing is I could understand why they want to leave. […]

I suppose it’s okay to criticize ethanol use when it’s President Bush who proposes it, but not when its proposed by Brazil, eh Fidel?
Brazil, a world leader in alcohol fuel, expects to produce a record 5.34 billion gallons of ethanol in the current sugarcane season, up 13.5 percent from the harvest before, the Agriculture Ministry […]

Here’s an interesting story–from Pravda:
An exchanged (sic) of gunfire between border guards and drug traffickers aboard a boat off eastern Cuba led to killing of two suspected smugglers and wounding a third.
Here’s a funny line from the article:
“The government of Cuba laments the loss of human life that resulted during the clash caused by this […]

The issue isn’t whether or not he did what he’s accused of doing (for which he has already been acquitted, I might add).
The issue is simply that ANY so-called “evidence” the Castro government would present is suspect on its face.
Three Cuban lawmakers have condemned the Justice Department’s decision to send […]

In honor of World Press Freedom Day, May 3, the Committee to Protect Journalists has published a list called “Backsliders,” of the top 10 countries where press freedom has most deteriorated.
Surprise, surprise, Cuba made the list.
Here are a few choice lines from the article:

Other countries such as Cuba have long had […]