Wait for the quid pro quo, it’s coming

Cuban Dissidents, Human Rights, Media Comments Off
Feb 152008

So Spain made the grand announcement that Cuba is releasing seven political prisoners, and the MSM rejoices and makes Raul sound like the second coming of Ghandi:

Cuba will free seven of 59 dissidents imprisoned since 2003, a move that opponents of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said reflects a “climate of change” under his brother’s rule.

The first releases of jailed dissidents since August were negotiated by Spain on health grounds and announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on Friday.

“The decision was made unilaterally by the Cuban authorities and we are very satisfied,” Moratinos told Spanish radio from the city of Cordoba, noting that the move came after dialogue with Cuba.

Dialogue with Cuba, huh? I wonder what exactly was discussed. Look for new exclusive business deals for Spain in Cuba during the next few months.

Meanwhile, the credulous MSM fails to ask the obvious questions:

  • -Why does Cuba have ANY political prisoners in the first place?

    • AND…

  • -WHen are you going to release the rest of them?

And then there’s this little tidbit buried near the end of the article I linked to above:

The Cuban government does not allow the International Red Cross access to its prisons.

And of course, this begs yet another couple of questions that remain unasked by the MSM:

  • -Why not let the Red Cross visit political prisoners? What are you trying to hide, Raul and Fidel?
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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 8:41 pm

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye…

Media Comments Off
Feb 152008

…but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Cuba rejects “the violation of human rights, unjust incarceration of prisoners held there (Guantanamo) without charges, and their appearance in courts without guarantees and in which they are convicted in advance,” (Castro’s Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque) told reporters, without directly referring to the case of six detainees facing charges that carry the death penalty.

Yep, you know a lot about “violation of human rights,” “unjust incarceration” and people “convicted in advance” since you engage in this just about every single day, Ratfink.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 8:30 pm

Miami memorial honoring Castro’s victims

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Feb 152008

The annual Cuban Memorial is on display beginning today at Miami’s Tamiami Park (the site is better known as the site of the County Fair). The memorial features 10,000 white crosses, each one symbolic of a life taken by Castro either through execution or by dying in the Florida Straits. The Cuban Memorial’s website has pictures and tons of info. The Miami Herald has an article.

The Cuban Memorial opened today with a press conference. It will remain in place through Sunday, with a number of events taking place onsite throughout the weekend. Visit if you can.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 8:20 pm

Castro’s Bizarro world

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Feb 122008

Only in Castro’s Cuba would this kind of BS pass for normal:

A Cuban student who appeared in a video last week grilling a top Cuban official is denying reports that he was arrested afterward, and maintains that his questions were aimed only at bettering socialism.

In the video CNN obtained and aired last week, Eliecer Avila was seen grilling Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, about low wages and why Cubans are banned from tourist hotels and from traveling abroad.

The student’s questions came during a meeting between Alarcon and students at the University of Computer Science in Havana. Students who gave CNN the tape said they wished to remain anonymous.

In a new video, the Cuban government says it is responding to “manipulation” by the overseas press and “media terrorism.”

In the new tape, Avila says his questions were meant to improve socialism. When asked by an interviewer about reports that he was arrested over the weekend, Avila acknowledges that while his absence from the university might have seemed mysterious to some, “At no point was it an arrest. My family is completely calm. There is no problem.”

Frank Kafka would be proud. Or mortified.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 10:28 pm

ANother reason NOT to vote Democrat (if you really care about Cuba)

Castro's Fellow Travelers, Che Guevara, From Other Blogs, Politics, Useful Idiots Comments Off
Feb 112008

Barack Obama’s Houston campaign office–watch the disgusting video at Hot Air.

And then remember when you go vote.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 9:38 pm

If they REALLY sparred,

Castro Is Dead, Politics Comments Off
Feb 112008

McCain would kick Fidel Castro’s defective ass:

Castro, McCain spar over Cuban torture in Vietnam

HAVANA, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans torturing American prisoners of war in Vietnam.

At a campaign stop in Miami last month, the Arizona senator told anti-Castro exiles that American POWs held with him in Hanoi were tortured by “a couple of Cubans.”

“His accusation against the Cuban revolutionaries … are completely unethical,” Castro wrote in an article published by the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma.

Castro talking about ethics, har har har. McCain responds:

“For me to respond to Fidel Castro, who has oppressed and repressed his people and who is one of the most brutal dictators on Earth, for me to dignify any comments he might make is certainly beneath me,” he said at a press conference.

“It’s a matter of record and you can ask several of the POWs who had direct contact with some, some thug that came to Hanoi with an underling assistant.”

I’m not a McCain fan but if I had to put money on him versus Castro–whether it be as to who is telling the truth versus who is lying, or who’d have a better shot at going a couple of rounds–I’d bet the farm.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 9:32 pm

Vote the February,2008 poll

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Feb 102008

If you could've voted in Cuba's elections last month, who would you have voted for President of Cuba?

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 10:06 pm

“Hey guys, what do we do with Fidel’s carcass?”

Castro Is Dead, Politics Comments Off
Feb 102008

“When should we stop pickling the Bearded One in formaldehyde?”

Interim president Raul Castro has officially convened the National Assembly for a Feb. 24 meeting to elect Cuba’s next president, amid speculation ailing Fidel Castro might not be its choice for the first time in almost five decades.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 9:51 pm

They’re ba-a-a-a-a-ck

Castro's Fellow Travelers, From Other Blogs, Useful Idiots Comments Off
Feb 082008

The Code Commie Pinko b**ches are at it again.

Whining about a “lack of free speech” in Miami, they’re going back to Miami–right in front of Versailles Resturant in Little Havana–tomorrow morning at 11AM.

I have to work but if you can be there to give them a warm Miami welcome, please do so.

Meanwhile, via Michelle Malkin, we learn what Code Commie Pinko and their sympathizers think about the rights of others, namely those they disagree with–in this case, would-be United States Marines:

As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of town, three war protesters ratcheted up pressure from the left by chaining themselves Friday to the front door of the downtown Marine recruiting office.

The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door, waving and chanting as hundreds of cars driving by honked in support. Finally, at 2:30 p.m., police snipped the chains and arrested them.

That’s 7 1/2 hours that Americans in a supposedly free country were denied the right to visit a Marine recruiter. Last time I checked the Constitution, there was a little something or other in there about “the right of the people peaceably to assemble” or something like that.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 8:33 pm

Czech Republic hearts Cubans

Friends of Cuban Freedom Comments Off
Feb 042008

Is it any surprise that a country that was once under the yoke of communism would be supportive of those who want freedom for Cuba?

The Czech Republic will continue with its support to the Cuban opposition and observance of human rights across the world, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg told representatives of Cuban opposition Hector Palacios and Gisela Delgado Friday.

Palacios said he hoped Cuba would become in one or two years a free country, to which the EU would contribute.

“The Czech Republic will insist in the future on its support to human rights in the whole world and in Cuba in particular. I hope that freedom and democracy will appear in Cuba through a concerted effort,” Schwarzenberg told journalists after meeting the Cuban dissidents.

It will, Mr. Schwarzenberg, thanks to help from great men like yourself.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 11:30 pm
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