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

Now, how do you top a headline like that? The University of Michigan’s student newspaper recently published a photo and caption with that title. It’s a pinata of Fidel Castro at an event by the Young Americans for Freedom, promoting a speech by Cuban-American and anti-Castro author Humberto Fontova on campus. Just […]

Is it any surprise when a country that once wore the noose of communism is a friend to those seeking freedom from Castro? The Czech Republic is taking in three Cuban families who escaped from Castro’s hell but didn’t quite make it to dry land in the U.S.:
The Czech government, which is known for […]

Condolences to the family and friends of radio host and journalist Agustin Tamargo, 82, who passed away earlier this week. Mr. Tamargo was a staunch anti-Castro personality who worked on Miami’s Radio Mambi (link in Spanish).
For those of you ignorant useful idiots who like to dismiss anyone who is critical of […]

President Bush gets it on Cuba:
Communist rule of Cuba should end when ailing leader Fidel Castro dies, President Bush said as he prepared for a Latin American tour seen as aiming to counter a regional shift to the left.
Bush’s trip, starting in Brazil on Thursday, is widely viewed as offering a counterpoint to the populist […]

Not that we needed a report to let us know this. But I digress. The U.S. State Department just released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006. Here’s the State Department’s page about the report, and here’s the page on Cuba.
Surprise, surprise, the Cuba page is longer than heck. […]

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 […]

This is hot off the Miami Herald’s website:
Five Cuban dissidents arrested 19 months ago and held without trial ever since finally got their day in court — and two-year prison sentences.
Emilio Leyva Pérez, Manuel Pérez Soria, Lázaro Alonso Román and René Montes de Oca Martija were sentenced to two years in prison. Independent journalist […]

A true Cuban hero and patriot is no longer with us. Here is an excerpt of his obit from the Miami Herald:
Mario Chanes de Armas, the Cuban political prisoner who served the longest sentence in modern times and symbolized the struggle for civic freedom in 20th century Cuba, will be remembered today with […]

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the tragic shootdown of two simple Cessna 337s carrying four men, by sophisticated Cuban MiG-29 jet fighters. For those of you not familiar with aviation, here’s a comparison: imagine going up against someone armed with a fully automatic AK-47 and all you have are spitballs and a straw. […]

Today is President Ronald Reagan’s birthday. He’d be 96 if he were alive now.
President Reagan was credited with helping to, as he himself said it, put “Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.” Alas, it was not meant to be so for Cuba. But it is notable that among those who support […]