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

Too bad it wasn’t with a two-by-four:
Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since he was sidelined by stomach surgery 18 months ago, got 98.3 percent of the votes cast in the district he represents in Santiago, Cuba’s second city.
But acting President Raul Castro won 99.4 percent of the ballots cast in his […]

FWIW, a dumpster diver found a bunch of Fulgencio Batista’s–the guy in charge in Cuba before Castro took over–old stuff in a Palm Beach dumpster some years ago. The dumpster just so happened to be located near the family’s office there.
Batista left Cuba for Spain after Castro took over in 1959. […]

I just came back from watching the documentary Shootdown, the one about the murder of four innocent men in slow propeller planes, by Castro’s MiG jet fighters, on February 24, 1996.
Wow, what a film.
One of my favorite lines: A Cuban-American gentleman was asked by a reporter shortly after the incident took […]

My New Year’s resolution for 2008 is…

finally celebrate a free Cuba this year

all of the above

lose weight

spend more time with family

find a new job

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Castro Death Watch has obtained a piece of a draft copy of the ballot used in Cuba’s recent “election,” below. We say a “piece” because it was smuggled out of the island nation by a desperately hungry balsero who ate a large portion of it. The remaining portion includes notes and proofreading marks […]

“Vote may hasten Castro reign’s end:”
‘My basic duty is not to cling to office and even less to obstruct the path of younger people, but to pass on the experiences and ideas whose modest worth stems from the exceptional era in which I have lived,” Castro said in a letter to the Cuban people in […]

Shoot Down, the documentary on the 1996 shootdown of two unarmed Brothers to the Rescue Cessnas by Castro’s supersonic MiG fighter jets (which we blogged about back in August), premieres today to a limited, invitation-only audience in Miami. I couldn’t make it–I aggravated an already bad leg injury which I’m currently nursing at home […]

The world’s biggest source of hot air is cooling down:
Fidel Castro said Wednesday he is not yet healthy enough to speak to Cuba’s masses in person and can’t campaign for Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
“I am not physically able to speak directly to the citizens of the municipality where I was nominated for our elections […]

My New Year’s resolution for 2008 is…

finally celebrate a free Cuba this year

all of the above

lose weight

spend more time with family

find a new job

View Results

Just when I thought I’d heard it all, comes this MSM fawnfest for Castro:
Fidel Castro looked frail but alert and even playful in a series of official photographs taken during a meeting with Brazil’s president on Tuesday, the first images of the ailing Cuban leader released in about three months.
Playful?!?!? Fidel Castro PLAYFUL?!?!? […]