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

It’s not just journalists in Cuba who are getting it. But then again, if you’re a regular reader of Castro Death Watch, you know that.
Surprisingly, Reuters did the following piece:
Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is still in control of the country and repression has increased during the rule of his younger brother […]

Despite all the noise that Raul isn’t like his brother Fidel, a Castro is still a repressive tyrant. Check out this AP story on Yahoo! News:
Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials […]

The Huffington Post–or as James Taranto of Opinion Journal calls it, the Puffington Host–published yesterday an, ahem, “interesting” piece calling for lifting the embargo against Castro’s Cuba. I’m puzzled by the title of the piece: U.S. Policy “Disserves” the Cuban People.
I say I’m puzzled because they put scare quotes around the word […]

The Herald today writes a fawning piece on a new cafeteria on southwest Eight Street in Miami. Only, as the article itself states, this joint is the “anti-Versailles:”
With its own timbiriche window serving crispy croquetas and cortaditos with evaporated milk, Tinta (Y Café, the full name of the place) reflects the anti-Versailles of exile […]

The Associated Press let this one slip through the cracks:
CUBA: US commerce secretary sees no softening of policy toward communist-run island
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Wednesday it would be a “great disservice” for the Cuban people if the United States eased economic and political ties with the island in the […]

Let me be frank (pun fully intended): I have often been ambivalent about the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
On the one hand, of course, anything we can do to hurt Castro is great, no matter how small. On the other hand, the embargo has been in place for so many years–and so has, unfortunately, Castro–so […]