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

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 […]

Sniff, sniff. Waa, waa. Boo hoo.
That was the sound of Fidel Castro’s puppets at the Useless Nations today as President Bush called Castro on his tyranny of Cuba:
Cuba’s foreign minister walked out of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in protest of President Bush’s speech in which he said the “long […]

I’m shocked when I find there’s anybody (outside of those who are of Cuban descent) who knows what Castro and his sidekick Che “The Butcher” Guevara are really about. But I’ve just discovered that the Times of London knows the real deal:
A ROMANTIC hero to legions of fans the world over, Ernesto “Che” […]

Here’s an excerpt of the review of what sounds like a fascinating film:
Fernando and Marie give up their respective jobs as lawyer and writer for Marie Claire magazine and become intimately involved with Salvador Allende’s election in Chile. Soon, they have fired Filomena (the Cuban nanny), who hates Castro and all the “rojos barbudos” (bearded […]

Stephen Gibbs of the BBC talks about his experience of getting kicked out of Cuba for reportage the Castro regime didn’t like, with a bit of a focus on the logisitics of moving from Cuba itself:
Moving home, they say, is one of life’s five most stressful experiences. It comes in at number three. […]

then you KNOW you did a good thing:
Cuba branded Hungary an “imperial accomplice” of Washington on Wednesday for granting political asylum to 29 Cubans who were held at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base.
Those given Hungarian visas were among 44 Cubans picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard. Authorities deemed them at risk […]

The five CONVICTED (that’s right, CONVICTED) spies Castro sent to the U.S. (disclaimer: link goes to a website I own) are appealing their prison sentences.
Why?
Because, {sniff, sniff} they say their sentences are {whine, whine} too long:
Almost nine years after their arrest, five Cubans convicted of spying on the U.S. government and South Florida exile groups […]

At a time when the most visible movie related to Cuba is a sick(o), twisted propaganda piece on Castro’s so-called “health system,” here’s a breath of fresh air:
Now, more than a decade later, (niece of Brothers to the Rescue shootdown victim Armando Alejandre, Jr., Christina) Khuly wants to make the tragedy real for a […]

The Socialist government of Spain wants to relive the days of concentration camps and the like for Cuba. But a group of bloggers called Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty is doing everything it can to expose José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero and his ilk:
The Spanish government is being denounced by Bloggers United for Cuban […]

It’s interesting to see Castro admit–not verbally, but through his dictatroship’s actions–that capitalism is superior to communism.
Yes folks, American name brand products are for sale right now–in Cuba:
Despite the U.S. Trading With the Enemy Act, which governs Washington’s 45-year-old embargo, sales on Fidel Castro’s island are lining the pockets of corporate America.
Nikes, Colgate […]