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

By violating the U.S. embargo:
“The fact that you’re not supposed to be there, that was the top for me,” said Amit, 29, a New York City native who visited Cuba in September 2006, shortly after the 81-year-old Castro fell ill and ceded power to his younger brother.
“I was like, ‘It’s time to […]

You should’ve stayed home in Mother Russia:
They were young women romantically drawn to Fidel Castro’s revolution, a breath of fresh air on a distant Caribbean island for those who were disillusioned with Soviet communism.
But when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, hundreds of Russian women who married Cubans and moved to Cuba were […]

WARNING: Don’t read this Guardian Unlimited piece about the bloody murderer Che Guevara while you’re eating.
Here’s a snippet, if you can stomach it:
Forty years later the anniversary of the death (of Che Guevara) is looming and the scene is transformed: the Cubans are back, socialism is back, and Che is officially […]

Elena Perez, the mother of the four-year-old Cuban girl at the heart of a bitter custody battle between the girl’s Miami-based foster family and her Cuba-based father, dropped a nuclear bomb in the courtroom this week. In trying to prove the father wanted his daughter back with him in Cuba, she had originally shown […]

Answer: P-r-i-s-o-n-e-r r-e-l-e-a-s-e-s u-n-d-e-r R-a-ú-l C-a-s-t-r-o. That’s part of the headline (the whole thing reads Prisoner releases under Raúl Castro raise hope for Cuba) of a Christian Science Monitor piece that naively suggests the Castros do ANYTHING out of altruistic feelings:
The steady fall in Cuba’s political prisoner population since Raúl Castro took the reins […]

Either these guys are kissing major butt, or they have the most deliciously wicked sense of sarcasm:
The Cuban Journalists Union (UPEC) granted “President” Fidel Castro the Prize to (sic) Dignity for his exceptional merits and his work in favor of the Cuban press.
Prize of Dignity?!?!?! To CASTRO!?!?!?! Har, har, I’ve been […]

Why Chávez, Castro bash U.S. ethanol plan

Reporters are taught to question everything. That is, unless they’re dealing with Castro’s government:
Cuban President Fidel Castro is exercising daily and has regained the 40 pounds he lost after surgery last summer, and his health crisis is “definitely behind us,” Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told Mexico’s daily newspaper Reforma.
And…
Perez denied that Cuba […]

While the usual cast of leftist useful idiot apologists for Castro hold their rallies and fruitcake fests to protest a judge’s ruling that Luis Posada Carriles–a man who had already been acquitted in Venezuela for what they accuse him of–should be freed, they conveniently ignore Castro’s allowing numerous fugitives from U.S. justice to live in […]

Just when we thought the issue of how Castro manipulates his life expectancy numbers to make Cuba look better than it really is, had been settled…
Along comes some Canuck news outfit parroting the Castro talking points:
Fidel Castro may be ailing, but he’s a living example of something Cubans take pride in - an average life […]