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

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 […]

One of our “friends” on the left has truly surprised me, pleasantly so. David Corn takes Ricardo Alarcon, AKA Fidel Castro’s parrot, to task for his hypocrisy in his blog on The Nation’s website:
… (Cuba’s National Assembly president and, as noted before, Castro parrot Ricardo) Alarcon’s concern for the plight of this one author […]

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, […]

Tomorrow marks a dubious anniversary in Cuban history known as “Primavera Negra,” or “Black Spring.” Four years ago, on March 18, the Castro regime took advantage of the fact that the world’s eyes were focused on the U.S.’s preparations for war against another dictator–Saddam Hussein of Iraq–and cracked down on peaceful dissent in Cuba. […]

A gazillion stories on the web on Fidel’s claim that he’s feeling well. Big whoop-de-do.
Meanwhile, this story was buried:
CPJ urges acting president of Cuba to immediately release all jailed journalists
March 14, 2007
His Excellency Raúl Castro Ruz
First Vice President […]

No, not really. Raulito seems more willing than his brother to let Cubans criticize their awful government, though not by much. We had Cuban writers criticize the government at a book fair a few weeks ago and we had a by-government-invitation-only meeting of intellectuals complaining about the Castro government a few weeks ago.
Now […]

That’s because books Castro doesn’t like get thrown into the fire. Literally:
From kangaroo-court records I have seen, when independent librarians are sent to the gulags, certain confiscated books — and sometimes all books in their libraries — are ordered incinerated by the presiding judge. A biography of Martin Luther King was sent to the […]

As if we needed more proof that freedom of speech and the press are anathema to communist dictatorships like the one in Cuba, we get this from the Associated Press:
Cuban press authorities have told the Havana correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, the BBC and a major Mexican newspaper that they can no longer report from […]

Once again, a Miami-Dade County Public School features a pro-commie book in its library. This time, a Cuban-American mother fights back:
A Miami-Dade mother says a book she checked out from her son’s school library contains false information about Cuba and she won’t give it back.
Dalila Rodriguez checked out the book this month.
Rodriguez said, “If […]

The Castro cabal won’t let Cubans have unfettered access to the Internet for fear the people might be exposed to new ideas. Or maybe it’s fear that Cubans will use the Internet to expose the Castro regime.
One man is putting his life on the line to fight this: Guillermo Farinas.
Farinas said he launched his […]