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

Lots of rumors floating around that Fidel Castro is finally dead.

Babalu Blog has a few posts dedicated to the topic, here’s the latest one.
The Caudillo Maximo hasn’t posted any new blatherings on his propaganda website.
Castro’s Mini-Me, Hugo Chavez, is denying Castro is dead (and we all know how good a commie’s word is).
The fact that, […]

Babalu Blog and a few others have been watching closely as Matt Lauer (of NBC’s Today Show) reports from Cuba this week. As can be expected of the MSM’s coverage of Cuba, Today’s reportage has left viewers with an inaccurate impression of the island and the 48 years of Castroite destruction of the Pearl […]

The Socialist government of Spain wants to relive the days of concentration camps and the like for Cuba. But a group of bloggers called Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty is doing everything it can to expose José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero and his ilk:
The Spanish government is being denounced by Bloggers United for Cuban […]

While the usual cast of leftist useful idiot apologists for Castro hold their rallies and fruitcake fests to protest a judge’s ruling that Luis Posada Carriles–a man who had already been acquitted in Venezuela for what they accuse him of–should be freed, they conveniently ignore Castro’s allowing numerous fugitives from U.S. justice to live in […]

Just when we thought the issue of how Castro manipulates his life expectancy numbers to make Cuba look better than it really is, had been settled…
Along comes some Canuck news outfit parroting the Castro talking points:
Fidel Castro may be ailing, but he’s a living example of something Cubans take pride in - an average life […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s April Fool’s Day today. So that must mean these Castro apologists are kidding, right?
From today’s Hartford (Connecticut) Courant:
That all changed after Fidel took the reins and shut down Mafia-owned casinos. American tourism dropped, but in 1970, groups of Connecticut students spent two-month stints in Cuba’s sugar fields, cutting cane in support of the […]

The guys at Babalu blog published this morning an excellent but simple (sometimes those are the best) post about the whole Cuba spy thing. It’s mostly a series of links to a number of good articles on the topic, so rather than just rehash it here, I’ll just direct you there.
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