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

…prominent Castro critic and political prisoner of the regime, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet:
Oscar Elias Biscet is a champion in the fight against tyranny and oppression. Despite being persecuted and imprisoned for his beliefs, he continues to advocate for a free Cuba in which the rights of all people are respected.
The ceremony for Dr. Biscet and […]

What should it say on Castro’s tombstone?

Please flush after use

Hoo boy, it is HOT in here!!!!

Rest in pieces

Goodbye and good riddance

Here lies the Bearded Bastard

History will absorb me

Here lies the biggest liar of them all

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…now that the “winner”–and ONLY bidder–of the auction for a lock of Che Guevara’s hair has been announced:
No, the winning — and only — bid was placed by Bill Butler, 61, a book dealer from Houston who called Che “one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century.”
So no doubt useful idiots will be […]

President George W. Bush greets his guests Marlenis Gonzalez, right, and her daughter Melissa, center, Wednesday, October 24, 2007, after his remarks on Cuba policy at the State Department in Washington, D.C. Melissa’s father, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Tanquero is currently being held in a Cuban prison after being arrested for crimes against the regime. […]

This story has sooooo many problems with it… my comments in italics:
Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday that President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine…
As opposed to you and Che, who wanted to nuke America during the missile crisis? Oh, and speaking of famine, how’s that rationing program going, Fidel?
…The brief […]

I don’t know what’s funnier, the MSM taking Castro’s propaganda about Cuba’s so-called election seriously; Castro himself criticizing our elections; the so-called “election” itself where Cubans WILL vote for the candidate they’re being force fed–or else. Either way, the whole situation is funny, if you can see the irony in it all, but mostly […]

Well, a monument to the dead terrorist got shot, anyway. Best of all, supposedly it was shot by leftists:
“We do not want a monument to Che, he is not an example for our children,” the group (Patriotic Command of the Plateau) said in a note left at the scene of the monument shattered […]

I was surprised to learn the CIA actually has an art gallery. Well, they’ve added a new piece to it: a painting depicting an air attack on Castro’s soldiers. The painting was unveiled at museum dedicated to flight in Birmingham, Alabama, according to this Miami Herald article.
Val Prieto of Babalu […]

for October:

What should it say on Castro’s tombstone?

Please flush after use

Hoo boy, it is HOT in here!!!!

Rest in pieces

Goodbye and good riddance

Here lies the Bearded Bastard

History will absorb me

Here lies the biggest liar of them all

View Results

The last place on God’s green earth–the ABSOLUTE last place–that you’d expect to find a viewpoint on Cuba other than “Castro/Che good, U.S. bad” would be a college newspaper, especially that of a liberal Massachusetts college.
So I hope you’ll excuse my utter shock when I discovered this morning not one, but two–TWO–Massachusetts college newspapers presenting […]