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

President George W. Bush meets with Yamile Llanes Labrada and her daughter Shirln Garcia, pictured sitting immediately to her mother’s right, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, in the Oval Office. Mrs. Labrada is the wife of Cuban political prisoner Dr. Jose Luis Garcia Paneque. White House photo by Eric Draper.President Bush attended a Hispanic Heritage event […]

Castro farts in a new video, the MSM is all over it.
The Cuban delegate to the Useless Nations acts like a petulant child during President Bush’s speech, that gets coverage like crazy.
Dissidents–21 of them–get arrested in Cuba, and you’re lucky to find a handful of buried headlines. If that.
The MSM apparently is either sympathetic […]

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 […]

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 […]

Of course, when you’re talking about Fidel Castro’s Cuba, being “freed” from prison is a relative term. After all, Cuba under the Castro brothers is nothing but a huge, open-air prison.
But I digress.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt Reina was released Monday. […]

the health of journalists unjustly condemned to Castro’s Gulag during the Black Spring of 2003 suffers:
Families and friends of eight independent Cuban journalists who have been unjustly imprisoned since 2003 say that the health of their loved ones has seriously deteriorated in recent months amid poor prison conditions and insufficient health care.
In a series […]

Babalu Blog and a few others have been watching closely as Matt Lauer (of NBC’s Today Show) reports from Cuba this week. As can be expected of the MSM’s coverage of Cuba, Today’s reportage has left viewers with an inaccurate impression of the island and the 48 years of Castroite destruction of the Pearl […]

Holy cow, the Apocalypse must be coming soon! I found an article about an anti-Castro journalist winning a Spanish journalism award on both the Miami Herald’s and ABC News’ respective websites:
Cuban dissident writer Raul Rivero has won a prestigious Spanish journalism award for his work as a journalist reporting on his native country, […]

If Castro farts or Cuba issues some ridiculous statement, it gets picked up all over the MSM. Meanwhile, this is being ignored:
The United States has praised a statement from representatives of the Cuban opposition movement calling for peaceful democratic change in Cuba.
In its statement, released April 16 in Spanish, members of most of Cuba’s […]

If true, it’s great news. But then again, we’re talking about Pravda:
Six dissidents considered political prisoners by several Cuban human rights groups were released Tuesday.
It was unclear why the communist government freed the men, but a majority had served all or most of their sentences of two to four years.
On Sunday, dissident […]