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

Michael Moore is back in the Cuba news spotlight this week. This time, the feds are after him for breaking the Cuban embargo law:
The U.S. government has launched a probe into whether maverick director Michael Moore, whose 2004 documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11″ skewered the Bush administration, broke laws when he went to Cuba for […]

I suppose it’s okay to criticize ethanol use when it’s President Bush who proposes it, but not when its proposed by Brazil, eh Fidel?
Brazil, a world leader in alcohol fuel, expects to produce a record 5.34 billion gallons of ethanol in the current sugarcane season, up 13.5 percent from the harvest before, the Agriculture Ministry […]

Some foolish, naive British tourists thought they’d go to Fidel Castro’s Cuba and have the time of their lives.
Har, har, har. I could’ve told them…
A pals’ dream holiday turned into the trip from hell when a muck-up with flights left them stranded thousands of miles from home
Natalie Coyne travelled to Cuba with […]

“Documentary” filmmaker Michael Moore-on is showing the free world that he’s such a sicko, no cheap publicity stunt is beneath him.
His latest: he’s offering to take 9/11 responders from New York to Cuba for “healthcare.” But at least some of the responders refuse to be used as pawns for the self-promoting Moore-on:
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When you can’t get to your enemies, get those close to them:
-Intelligence agents raided the home of a close friend of anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles, who’s jailed in the U.S. but wanted in Venezuela for a 1976 airliner bombing, the friend’s wife said Thursday.
The raid came as President Hugo Chavez accused […]

Looks as though the rock group The Police might be playing in a police state–Cuba:
The Police may be giving their Cuban fans a free show this Christmas.
The super rock group, which recently reunited for a sell-out world tour, has received an invitation from the Cuban government to perform there in December.
The Havana show would […]

Talk about birds of a feather flocking together. Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are courting each other like a pair of mourning doves in heat or something.
First, there’s this from the Mehr News Agency in Iran:
The most prestigious medal of the Cuban government was bestowed on the Iranian ambassador to Havana, […]

I knew there was a reason they called it “La-La Land:”
About 100 people gathered in Hollywood Saturday night to protest U.S. policies regarding Venezuela and Bolivia and economic sanctions against Cuba.
The candlelight vigil, organized by the April 7 Coalition and held at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue about 6:30 p.m., was peaceful, LAPD […]

If the last post didn’t make you laugh, maybe this one will. Now we have a CNN reporter talking about how great it is that Cubans aren’t interested in material wealth (memo to said CNN reporter: it’s because they’re too busy just trying to survive, barely). “Oh, look at how quaintly the poor […]

Wanna good laugh? Read this.
“This” is basically a fluff piece on the so-called restoration of Old Havana under Castro. Hardy, har har. The inevitable gratuitous cheap shot at America is thrown in for good measure, but then we get the shocker:
Only about 40,000 (tourists to Cuba) are from the U.S., […]