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

That’s the headline of an article in today’s Miami Herald. If I recall correctly, a few leftists are upset about this program because it encourages doctors to leave Cuba. In other words, it works. Perhaps the opponents of this program should aim their focus at the reasons why doctors (and anyone else […]

The Daily Herald, a newspaper published in a suburb of Chicago, has a great article on their website today about three men who left Cuba for freedom decades ago. This article is particularly near and dear to me, as I was born in a suburb of Chicago myself and I lived there until I […]

Imagine you’re holding an exercise for an anticipated, potential emergency event. Imagine if the emergency event happens during your exercise, albeit to a far lesser degree than what you’re holding the exercise for:
[The] simulation began just hours after a real U.S. Border Patrol mission picked up more than 40 Spanish-speaking migrants who happened to […]

Interesting headline in the Miami Herald today: Defections might hurt Cuban team.
It was for a story I posted on earlier this week, about three Cuban boxers who escaped Castro’s tyranny for freedom. The Herald’s take on this story?
The final verdict is more than a year away, following the 2008 Olympics, but the defections of […]

Q: How do you spell “schizophrenia?”
A: “Wet-foot, dry-foot.”
Imagine missing out on freedom by a few feet of land/ocean. Compare and contrast the following stories from the Miami Herald today:
11 cold migrants arrive at toll booth
BY TIM CHAPMAN
Soaked, shivering and disoriented, two groups of migrants walked up to the Key Biscayne toll […]

The Sporting News today has an article about–surprise, surprise–athletes leaving Cuba, looking for freedom:
Odlanier Solis, a 26-year-old heavyweight; Yuriorkis Gamboa, a 25-year-old super bantamweight; and 27-year-old Barthelemy stole away from their hotel while training in Venezuela for the upcoming Pan American Games and then crossed into Colombia.
There’s more:
Solis and Gamboa left […]

The Sporting News today published an interesting story about two friends who grew up together playing baseball in Cuba–and wanting to come to America, to play for the Atlanta Braves.
One of the friends, Brayan Pena, snuck away from the Castro goon watching him at a baseball competition in Venezuela, by asking […]

Score one for Cuban freedom. Or make that, 23:
23 Cuban migrants arrived in a makeshift boat early Tuesday morning at Higgs Beach in Key West. The group, which included two children, all appeared to be in good health. The boat used to make the trip appeared to be the hull of a sailboat, without […]

Wow, I’m pleasantly surprised. The San Francisco Chronicle actually published an article today with the title Cuban doctors defect from Venezuela posts. I’m shocked they’d admit that.
Of course, the piece doesn’t come without the typical Castro apologia about “free healthcare,” but they also mentioned this:
Cuban doctors are not permitted to talk […]

Word is out now that one of Castro’s prized musicians–and one who enjoyed extremely rare privileges under the regime, such as having a Mercedes Benz–defected to the US late last year.
Isaac Delgado, a famous salsa star, joins the long list of musicians and other Cubans leaving Castro’s repression for freedom in America. My favorite […]