Category Archives: Defection

Well, that’s a shock!

What, Castro’s afraid more athletes might defect?
Cuba won’t send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago, heeding Fidel Castro’s fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games.
The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics.
LOL! Be afraid, Fidel, be VERY [...]

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Monday, Monday…

Tomorrow (Monday) a big court date is set for the custody battle between the foster, and would be adoptive parents of a young Cuban girl in Miami, and her father from Cuba:
Nearly eight years after the battle over young Elian Gonzalez divided this city, another Cuban child has become the center of a bitter [...]

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Shame on Brazil

Sending two Cuban boxers back to prison over a technicality instead of letting them find asylum in another country, such as Germany, where they had applied for such:
Two Cuban boxers who abandoned the Pan American Games were deported from Brazil because of problems with their visas and not political pressure from Cuba, Brazil’s justice minister [...]

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Hungary, if Castro ’slams’ you,

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 [...]

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Letter from a friend to Today’s Matt Lauer

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 [...]

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I can’t believe the source

For readers who wonder why I’ve been silent on the recent hijacking of the airplane in Cuba by a group of young conscripts… well, I’ve been extraordinarily busy this week. I do have a “day job,” after all.
My take on the thing is I could understand why they want to leave. [...]

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Breaking: 13 Cubans make landfall in Miami

According to Channel 7 in Miami (WSVN TV), 11 adults and two children have made it to shore safely from Cuba in the Miami area. The 13 are reported in good health as they made landfall near Key Biscayne in Miami. The news coming on the High Holy Day of communism, May Day. [...]

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A look back…

Through the eyes of a Mariel refugee:
Argelio del Valle had no plan. All his best ideas had failed him. A 29-year-old mechanic, he had dreamed up several elaborate plots to leave Cuba. But something always went wrong. In the worst instance, he and his friends were caught and put under house arrest.
So when he [...]

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Our friends the Czechs

The biggest advocates for a free Cuba in Europe are the Czechs. Clearly it’s because they once felt the yoke of communism around their own necks and they haven’t forgotten. God bless them.
Prague was probably the last place on the minds of three Cuban families when they set out from their island home [...]

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21 more for freedom

Rough seas can’t deter the human yearning for freedom:
Nearly two dozen Cubans braved wind whipped seas to make a dangerous crossing to South Florida.
The 21 migrants were dropped off Monday morning at the toll plaza on the Rickenbacker Causeway. They told CBS4’s Yusila Ramirez they left Cuba on Friday, and spent the following two [...]

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