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

If you’ve ever read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, then you’ll understand the simple formula of the communist’s repressive machine: for one to get out of prison, one must come in.
And so it is with Fidel Castro’s own Gulag. First, one goes in:
A Cuban dissident has been jailed for 12 years after […]

A Castroite kangaroo court in Cuba sentenced independent journalist Oscar Sanchez Madan to four years in prison today. His crime?
A Cuban dissident journalist was arrested, tried and sentenced to four years in prison — all in one day and with no defense attorney — on charges of being a ”pre-criminal social danger,” […]

Gotta love Italians.
One in particular–photographer Oliviero Toscani–has opened a new exhibition at the European Union’s parliament building. The exhibit, titled “Forbidden To Think: The Faces Of Cuban Repression,” features huge photos of imprisoned Cuban political dissidents:
“I’m not here to create virtuoso photographs,” (Toscani) said. “In this exhibit, art consists of action applied to the […]

Cuba agrees to “kinda, sorta, maybe” talk about human rights with Spain and a new group called “Dialogue for Rights Coalition” naively thinks this means Castro’s cronies give a rat’s behind about human rights:
A new coalition of moderate Cuban opposition groups called Thursday for the creation of a human rights commission in the National […]

A few days ago, we noted on this blog that Spain’s government thinks being buddy-buddy with Castro is a good thing.
That gesture wasn’t forgotten by Cuba’s nearly forgotten dissidents:
The Spanish Embassy on Wednesday offered to meet with opponents of Cuba’s government after Madrid’s top diplomat ended a three-day official visit to Havana […]

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 […]

I was stark raving mad after reading a post titled Fear of repercussions by Henry “Conductor” Gomez on Babalu Blog this morning. Here’s why.
A few weeks back, the MSM was all atwitter over the announcement by the communist totalitarian state in Cuba that Castro would be strong enough to “run” for president again in […]

That’s the gist of a headline on a piece from the U.S. State Department noting the fourth anniversary of Primavera Negra (Black Spring). Here’s a snippet of the article:
On the fourth anniversary of the Cuban regime’s crackdown on dissidents, observers of Cuba agree that the country’s communist government continues to attack press freedom, […]

The past couple of weeks or so, the MSM has been obsessing about a bunch of terrorists holed up at Guantanamo under U.S. control. Meanwhile, they ignore the 11 million in the world’s largest open-air prison, on the other side of the fence.
At least a few of them are getting some MSM coverage, […]