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, […]

Castro did away with the whole “Cuba was America’s brothel” thing, didn’t he?
Well, of course he did! Why, instead of being America’s brothel, Cuba is now Europe’s brothel!
Foreigners have come to Cuba for years seeking escorts for nights out and sex in exchange for gifts or cash to help the family. Cubans […]

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 […]

If true, it’s great news. But then again, we’re talking about Pravda:
Six dissidents considered political prisoners by several Cuban human rights groups were released Tuesday.
It was unclear why the communist government freed the men, but a majority had served all or most of their sentences of two to four years.
On Sunday, dissident […]

If you’ve ever read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, then you’ll understand the simple formula of the communist’s repressive machine: for one to get out of prison, one must come in.
And so it is with Fidel Castro’s own Gulag. First, one goes in:
A Cuban dissident has been jailed for 12 years after […]

Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro’s Mini-Me and dictator of Venezuela, is an insult to humanity and freedom-loving people everywhere.
Here’s an excerpt of a U.S. State Department report on the latest goings on in the oil-rich Latin American nation:
Desacato or “insult” laws, which have been used to punish journalists for challenging their country’s leaders, […]

Through the eyes of a Mariel refugee:
Argelio del Valle had no plan. All his best ideas had failed him. A 29-year-old mechanic, he had dreamed up several elaborate plots to leave Cuba. But something always went wrong. In the worst instance, he and his friends were caught and put under house arrest.
So when he […]

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 […]