‘Cuban espionage regaining pre-Iraq war strength’

Castro's Fellow Travelers Comments Off
Oct 052007

That’s the title of an eye-opening editorial in yesterday’s Miami Herald. Here’s a little teaser:

Cuba’s high-risk adventurism occurred on the heels of detailed revelations of Ana Montes’ espionage, including her efforts in the late 1980s to kill U.S. and Salvadoran soldiers during the war against the FMLN, the Salvador guerrilla movement. Cuba arrogantly assumed it could again put the lives of U.S. military personnel at risk without any consequences. This strategic blunder made a major U.S. response a fait accompli.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 9:35 pm

The shoe on the other foot

Che Guevara Comments Off
Oct 052007

Leftist a-holes around the world are celebrating the anniversary of Che Guevara’s death. Meanwhile, someone who was actually there when it happened recalls, too:

The man Gen. Gary Prado remembers — sad, sick, hungry, dressed in rags and alone in the jungle — simply dropped his gun and surrendered, saying, “Don’t shoot, I’m Che.”

”He wasn’t the figure of the heroic guerrilla,” Prado recalled in an AP interview Thursday night.

In contrast to the iconic rebel celebrated by Che fans who have made his death scene a tourist trap, the man Prada captured “wasn’t someone to impose terror or anything, but simply to be pitied.”

And then, in an incredible display of chutzpah, Fidel Castro whines:

“The following day, October 9, 1967, at noon, they executed him in cold blood.”

Yeah, Fidel, you mean like the thousands you and he butchered?

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 9:24 pm

Che is still very dead, Fred

Che Guevara Comments Off
Oct 042007

See?

But as the ailing (Fidel) Castro, now 81, fades from the political stage after emergency intestinal surgery last year, many Cubans appear more concerned with making ends meet in an inefficient state-run economy than following Che’s lofty ideals.

There’s more. In one of life’s sweetest ironies, some young Cubans are looking up to Che as a role model for rebellion–AGAINST the Castro regime he helped set up:

“Many of us idolize Che more than Fidel. He is a symbol of rebellion in Cuba too, not just for government supporters,” said Ruth, a computing student who asked not to be named fully. “The problem is Cuban society has gone down the drain.”

Down the drain, indeed.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 10:40 pm

Wanna good laugh?

China Comments Off
Oct 032007

Read this:

Cuban State Council Vice President Carlos Lage Tuesday praised the high quality of Yutong buses being supplied by China to this Caribbean island.

:-D

Hope they aren’t painted with lead-based paint. Hahahahaha!

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 10:12 pm

How does a communist government spell “loyalty test?”

Politics, Raul Castro Comments Off
Oct 022007

And, how does a communist government spell “appearing tolerant?”

P-r-e-t-e-n-d t-o a-l-l-o-w c-r-i-t-i-c-i-s-m:

Interim President Raúl Castro has called publicly for criticism, saying that the only way to fix the country’s many problems is to air them.

But, but, but…

…skeptics say such a debate was held before, and was cut off when the onslaught of grievances was more than the government wished to discuss.

And despite Castro’s cracking open the door long shut to public criticism, there seems to be one topic that is strictly out of bounds: ending the island’s communist system.

“This is going to be public venting, not serious change,” said Alcibiades Hidalgo, a former Cuban ambassador to the United Nations and personal secretary to Castro.

“Rather than being a real inventory of problems — which they already know and don’t need — this is an exercise in political propaganda in order to put on a new, more understanding face.”

You can put lipstick on a pig…

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 7:29 am

Unidad Cubana issues “Declaration from Miami”

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Oct 022007

The exile group Unidad Cubana (their English-language website is here) issued their “Declaration from Miami” last night, for a free Cuba. The Miami Herald has more.

Let’s just say, their lips to God’s ears!

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 7:22 am

What’s REALLY illegal is the Castro regime

Defection, Media Comments Off
Oct 022007

Every Cuban who can escape the slow death sentence that is “life” under Castro, is escaping, and the MSM calls it an “Illegal flow of Cubans.” No, what’s REALLY illegal is Castro’s usurpation of power.

Read on:

The number of Cubans leaving their communist-run country by sea is steadily increasing and has reached the highest level since a mass exodus in 1994, according to new US figures.

Fiscal 2007 figures showed twice as many Cubans arriving in the US without travel documents are doing so via Mexico instead of crossing the Florida Straits.

US officials said good weather and calm summer waters had contributed to the rising number of Cubans departing by sea, though the absence of hope for change in Cuba in the year after Cuban leader Fidel Castro fell ill was driving more Cubans to leave.

“At bottom, the reason why people are willing to risk their lives to leave Cuba is the lack of hope and expectations,” said the US consul-general in Havana, Sean Murphy.

Yep, that’s the socialist paradise for you.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 6:57 am

New October poll

Castro Is Dead, Poll Comments Off
Oct 012007

The new poll is here for October. Have at it!

What should it say on Castro's tombstone?

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 8:22 pm

Religious freedom in Cuba?

Anti-Communism, Freedom of Religion Comments Off
Oct 012007

Surely you jest.

“In the end, we have not accomplished what we’re entitled to; the Catholic Church has not been granted the right to evangelize and spread without fear of losing its religious freedom,” (retired Archbishop Pedro) Meurice said in a recent interview.

In the year since President Fidel Castro has been ill and out of the public eye, analysts and religious leaders point to the fate of a popular Catholic magazine and civics workshops in the western city of Pinar del Rio as dramatic examples of tighter church control.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 6:09 am
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