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

Venezuela’s rubber-stamp congress moved closer to allowing Fidel Castro’s parrot, Hugo Chavez, to become dictator for life (or for a very long time at least). They gave the initial thumbs up to a series of so-called “reforms” that would allow Mini-Me, er, Chavez, to stay in office for a seven-year term rather than the […]

Lots of rumors floating around that Fidel Castro is finally dead.

Babalu Blog has a few posts dedicated to the topic, here’s the latest one.
The Caudillo Maximo hasn’t posted any new blatherings on his propaganda website.
Castro’s Mini-Me, Hugo Chavez, is denying Castro is dead (and we all know how good a commie’s word is).
The fact that, […]

Why Chávez, Castro bash U.S. ethanol plan

It’s a good, albeit rare, thing to see Hollywood types pick the right side when it comes to socialist dictators:
Cuban-born actress Maria Conchita Alonso, who grew up in Venezuela and is a staunch opponent of President Hugo Chavez, plans to play a die-hard Chavez supporter in a film that takes a critical view of Latin […]

Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro’s Mini-Me and dictator of Venezuela, is an insult to humanity and freedom-loving people everywhere.
Here’s an excerpt of a U.S. State Department report on the latest goings on in the oil-rich Latin American nation:
Desacato or “insult” laws, which have been used to punish journalists for challenging their country’s leaders, […]

How come every couple of weeks or so we get another “Fidel Castro is kinda, sorta, maybe feeling a little better” story? Why not wait until he’s COMPLETELY recovered before reporting anything?
Methinks that’s because of the propaganda value, both to the world and to Cuba’s citizens yearning to be free, of keeping Castro what […]

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 […]

Venezuelans who voted in Chavez are now beginning to see he’s as bad as Castro. Shortages, which have been a way of life in Cuba for the last 48 years, are beginning to rear their ugly faces in Venezuela:
Ysacar Morales and her stepfather Daniel are sitting on the front step of their house […]

The U.S. State Department published a new report today highlighting human rights abuses in Cuba and Venezuela. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the MSM to pick up on this. Just go here and read the article about the report yourself.
Here’s a snippet:
The State Department said in a new […]

Didn’t I already talk about this on this blog? Yes, I did.
For a second time in a row, the moribund, crusty Castro temporarily removes his foot from the grave, long enough to spew his hot, methane-laced breath about the Bush Administration’s proposed use of ethanol:
Castro chided the Bush administration for its support of ethanol […]