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

Holy cow, the Apocalypse must be coming soon! I found an article about an anti-Castro journalist winning a Spanish journalism award on both the Miami Herald’s and ABC News’ respective websites:
Cuban dissident writer Raul Rivero has won a prestigious Spanish journalism award for his work as a journalist reporting on his native country, […]

Former paratrooper Edel R. Fernandez plans to make a parachute jump this morning to commemorate the Bay of Pigs invasion, reports Florida Today:
Fernandez was a paratrooper with the 2506 Brigade during the April 17, 1961 invasion. He was kept as a political prisoner for almost two years.

On Yahoo! News, from the Christian Science Monitor:
On Friday, a hospitalized Fidel Castro met with a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo, Wu Guanzheng. It may be no coincidence that Mr. Wu’s specialty is Communist Party discipline.
No coincidence? Ya think?
But there’s more:
Meanwhile, Cuba’s rickety economy is beset by continuing problems. This year’s […]

I suppose when international leaders speak out AGAINST Castro, it’s not important enough to be covered widely. From the České noviny, the only place I could find this story:
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel called for greater international solidarity for the benefit of freedom and human rights in Cuba, at the start of a two-day […]

If Castro farts or Cuba issues some ridiculous statement, it gets picked up all over the MSM. Meanwhile, this is being ignored:
The United States has praised a statement from representatives of the Cuban opposition movement calling for peaceful democratic change in Cuba.
In its statement, released April 16 in Spanish, members of most of Cuba’s […]

Went to see Scott Carmichael speak at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Florida last night. Mr. Carmichael is author of an incredible new book titled True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba’s Master Spy.
Mr. Carmichael, a counterintelligence investigator with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) hunts out moles (spies for […]

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 […]

There’s a nice piece written by Alberto De La Cruz, posted on Claudia Fanelli’s blog, titled The Tribe of Cuba. Here’s an excerpt:
The philosophical difference experienced between Cuban exiles and Latino immigrants is vast and appears insurmountable; no matter of discussion or name-calling will change the respective positions. Other Latinos will always view […]

Gotta love Italians.
One in particular–photographer Oliviero Toscani–has opened a new exhibition at the European Union’s parliament building. The exhibit, titled “Forbidden To Think: The Faces Of Cuban Repression,” features huge photos of imprisoned Cuban political dissidents:
“I’m not here to create virtuoso photographs,” (Toscani) said. “In this exhibit, art consists of action applied to the […]

The U.S. State Department published a new report today highlighting human rights abuses in Cuba and Venezuela. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the MSM to pick up on this. Just go here and read the article about the report yourself.
Here’s a snippet:
The State Department said in a new […]