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

It’s interesting to see Castro admit–not verbally, but through his dictatroship’s actions–that capitalism is superior to communism.
Yes folks, American name brand products are for sale right now–in Cuba:
Despite the U.S. Trading With the Enemy Act, which governs Washington’s 45-year-old embargo, sales on Fidel Castro’s island are lining the pockets of corporate America.
Nikes, Colgate […]

…and only now does the MSM begin to see.
Cuban exiles and Cuban-Americans have, for the last 40-plus years, saying that until Castro is gone, Cuba will not be free. Today, the Los Angeles Times appears to be saying as much in a piece titled “Hold the reforms — Castro is back:”
After […]

Castro did away with the whole “Cuba was America’s brothel” thing, didn’t he?
Well, of course he did! Why, instead of being America’s brothel, Cuba is now Europe’s brothel!
Foreigners have come to Cuba for years seeking escorts for nights out and sex in exchange for gifts or cash to help the family. Cubans […]

Take your bank accounts and stuff ‘em:
Cuba on Wednesday protested the decision by an Austrian bank recently bought by a U.S. consortium to stop serving Cuban customers.
“For us, this action is unacceptable,” Norma Goicochea Estenoz, Cuba’s ambassador to Austria, told reporters at the Cuban Embassy.
Gee, I thought socialists hated bankers. Gee, I thought nobody […]

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 […]

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 […]

Retirees in the socialist paradise forced to work just to eat? Nah, couldn’t happen. Right?
Maria is 59 and retired - at least in theory. For the past four years she has held two jobs in the underground economy to supplement her government pension. Like many of her generation, she is finding that what […]

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 […]

Tour operators in Cuba today must be about as busy as sloths taking a nap. Speaking of naps, a Miami Herald article today notes that Cuba’s tourism industry is on a major siesta:
Cuba’s tourism industry, the island’s main economic engine for the past 15 years, is in a steep fall amid a mix of […]

Senior Cuban officials are analyzing a pair of new labor laws taking affect next month as the island’s official media cranks up a campaign about the rules aimed at beefing up work productivity.
There’s more:
Cuban worker productivity plunged during the island’s economic crisis in the 1990s, brought on by the loss of its former Soviet partners.
Now, […]