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Fidel Castro’s 5th

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Castro Death Watch
 – June 14, 2008Posted in: Castro Is Dead, From Other Blogs

No, we’re not talking symphonies here. Although given where on his decrepit old body he’s been operated, I’m sure he’s “composing symphonies” of his own, in a manner of speaking.

No, what we’re talking about is a report on Miami TV last night, according to Babalu Blog, that Fidel Castro has undergone surgery again recently, his fifth since he took ill in 2006. According to Babalu Blog, this was reported by Dr. Jaime Suchliki of the University of Miami, who himself was citing an unnamed source he considers credible.

Time will tell if this story is true or not…

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5 Things You Need To Know For A Wedding In Cuba

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Castro Death Watch
 – June 5, 2008Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers, From Other Blogs, Miscellaneous

Inspired by this travel piece that was linked to by Babalu Blog, I’ve decided to post my own version of “5 Things You Need To Know For A Wedding In Cuba:”

  1. Selecting a church: Fidel and Raul Castro’s communist Cuba is atheist, so good luck there. But hey, maybe if you promise to change Fidel’s colostomy bag, Cardinal Bertone might be willing to preside over your wedding.
  2. Food: Ha! Hahahahaha! You REALLY expect to find food in Cuba? Maybe on Raul’s dinner plate. You’ll have to save your rations for months to have a decent wedding reception. Of course, that begs the question: what are you going to eat until the wedding? Well, at least you’ll be sure to fit into your wedding dress or tuxedo on your big day.
  3. Wedding wear: And that brings us to “thing” number three. Forget the designer duds–this is a communist country after all. Try one of those Che Guevara t-shirts the useful idiots in free countries wear. Or you can wear olive drab military fatigues like the “Coma-andante” used to wear.
  4. Wedding gifts: Don’t expect to receive much in the way of wedding gifts. Unless one of the invitees is a member of Cuba’s nomenclatura. Nobody in Cuba has much to give. The one exception to this rule is the family of political prisoners. With one or more members languishing in a Castro gulag, they’re likely to be able to have a few things to spare that they can give you and your beloved as gifts.
  5. The Honeymoon: Ah yes. Where to get away with your loved one after you exchange your vows? Well, now that Raul Castro has opened Cuba’s hotels to, um, Cubans, perhaps you can stay there. Oh, way too expensive for the average Cuban, you say? Then perhaps a cruise on Cuba’s first ever cruise liner! Or maybe you can go on your own, um “cruise” on a makeshift raft. Of course, if you get caught, you might end up with an all-expenses paid “honeymoon” in one of Castro’s prisons instead. What could be more romantic than your own dank, dark 5-by-5 cell with a hole in the ground for a toilet and vermin to keep you company?
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Wild, wild horses, couldn’t keep Cubans from yearning for freedom

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Castro Death Watch
 – March 12, 2008Posted in: Cuban Dissidents, Freedom of the Press, Friends of Cuban Freedom, From Other Blogs

Or wild colts, as the case may be.

Remember last year when Cuba’s chief propagandist, Ramiro Valdes, said Cuba needs to tame “the wild colt of new technologies” (meaning the Internet)?

Well, via the wonderful blog Bilingual in the Boonies, today I learned about a new blog from Cuba (yes, fron INSIDE Castro’s huge island Gulag) called “Potro Salvaje” (Wild Colt). Potro Salvaje says it’s a “blog about the thorny issue of the Internet in Cuba.” It calls itself a “virtual raft” and it’s motto is “we must liberate the tamed colt of technology,” a dig at Valdes’ comment.

Cool! I’ve added them to the blogroll and I’ll take a stab at translating some of their posts from time to time.

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Fark blogger: Castro’s “resignation” prompted by his death

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Castro Death Watch
 – February 20, 2008Posted in: Castro Is Dead, From Other Blogs

Make of this what you will, but I found it interesting. Fark blogger Drew Curtis comes to his own conclusion as to why Fidel Castro’s “resignation” was announced at 3AM and not at a more convenient time:

The only valid reason to make an announcement like that at 3am was that the government was in a hurry. Something happened in the middle of the night to make them move up the timetable.

I’m going to go out on a limb and speculate that Castro is dead.

The Cuban government is getting their house in order before announcing it. They’ll “elect” his brother Raoul as Supreme King Hand of God of Cuba or whatever they call it. Then next week they’ll announce that Castro suddenly died, peacefully and in a way in no way related to his colon.

An interesting theory, for sure. Nothing out of the Castro brothers’ twisted world surprises me so this sounds plausible to me. But we’ll have to wait to see if Curtis is right…

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Castro could face charges in Brothers to the Rescue shootdown

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Castro Death Watch
 – February 20, 2008Posted in: Castro Is Dead, Friends of Cuban Freedom, From Other Blogs

A big “Thanks” to Babalu Blog for pointing this one out:

A Florida congresswoman asked the Justice Department yesterday to bring charges against resigning Cuban leader Fidel Castro for the deaths of four U.S. rescue workers who were killed while looking for Cuban migrants stranded at sea.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said earlier attempts to prosecute Castro in the 1996 downing of a humanitarian flight off the Cuban coast might not have been successful because of his role as head of state.

But now that Castro resigned, there is no longer the technicality of his status as “head of state” to contend with. Bravo to Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen for not waiting a day to press for justice for the victims of this act of murder!

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BREAKING: Fidel Castro resigns UPDATE: More blog reactions

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Castro Death Watch
 – February 19, 2008Posted in: Castro Is Dead, From Other Blogs, Media, Politics, Raul Castro

File this one in the “a half century late, a few billion dollars, thousands executed and imprisoned and millions of Cubans tormented short” category: Fidel Castro has resigned as dictator of Cuba:

An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.

The end of Castro’s rule—the longest in the world for a head of government—frees his 76-year-old brother Raul to implement reforms he has hinted at since taking over as acting president when Fidel Castro fell ill in July 2006. President Bush said he hopes the resignation signals the beginning of a democratic transition.

“My wishes have always been to discharge my duties to my last breath,” Castro wrote in a letter published Tuesday in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma. But, he wrote, “it would be a betrayal to my conscience to accept a responsibility requiring more mobility and dedication than I am physically able to offer.”

For those who think this means change and freedom in Cuba, it doesn’t. Not until the entire Castro cabal is out. Sure, there will be some so-called “reforms” under Raul, but they will be nothing but meaningless window dressing, as they have been since Fidel “temporarily” handed power to his brother.

Some blog reactions:

Babalu

Michelle Malkin

Uncommon Sense

My Pet Jawa

Kill Castro

Captain’s Quarters

Gateway Pundit

Fausta’s Blog

UPDATED: More blogs react

Hot Air

Jammie Wearing Fool

Neocon News

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ANother reason NOT to vote Democrat (if you really care about Cuba)

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Castro Death Watch
 – February 11, 2008Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers, Che Guevara, From Other Blogs, Politics, Useful Idiots

Barack Obama’s Houston campaign office–watch the disgusting video at Hot Air.

And then remember when you go vote.

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They’re ba-a-a-a-a-ck

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Castro Death Watch
 – February 8, 2008Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers, From Other Blogs, Useful Idiots

The Code Commie Pinko b**ches are at it again.

Whining about a “lack of free speech” in Miami, they’re going back to Miami–right in front of Versailles Resturant in Little Havana–tomorrow morning at 11AM.

I have to work but if you can be there to give them a warm Miami welcome, please do so.

Meanwhile, via Michelle Malkin, we learn what Code Commie Pinko and their sympathizers think about the rights of others, namely those they disagree with–in this case, would-be United States Marines:

As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of town, three war protesters ratcheted up pressure from the left by chaining themselves Friday to the front door of the downtown Marine recruiting office.

The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door, waving and chanting as hundreds of cars driving by honked in support. Finally, at 2:30 p.m., police snipped the chains and arrested them.

That’s 7 1/2 hours that Americans in a supposedly free country were denied the right to visit a Marine recruiter. Last time I checked the Constitution, there was a little something or other in there about “the right of the people peaceably to assemble” or something like that.

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The end is near for Castro

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Castro Death Watch
 – January 7, 2008Posted in: Castro Is Dead, From Other Blogs

So says Alberto Mueller’s blog (sorry, the site is Spanish so we’re translating the quotes below):

News from sources near Fidel Castro’s children are (sic) privately saying their father, the Cuban dictator, is in a state of maximum seriousness and with enormous respiratory difficulties.

Mueller goes on to say that some sources near Castro are speculating that his brother Raul is keeping him on life support to “prolong [Castro's] cult of personality.”

I just wonder if that’s true, what’s going to happen if they lose power?

Kudos to Babalu Blog for bringing this story to light.

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SS Fidel Castro, a sinking ship

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Castro Death Watch
 – January 5, 2008Posted in: Cuba's Economy, From Other Blogs, Funnies

I heard about this one on Babalu Blog. It seems a website known as “The Spoof” has published an “article” about Fidel Castro’s first-ever cruise ship. Here’s a snippet:

The new ship which is the pride of the Cuban nation is a bit unusual in that it is made up of 10,000 inner tubes all tied together with twine. Its method of propulsion is the legs of the passengers who move in perfectly disciplined synchronization to the sound of a salsa band in order to get from point A to point B.

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