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

A Castroite kangaroo court in Cuba sentenced independent journalist Oscar Sanchez Madan to four years in prison today. His crime?
A Cuban dissident journalist was arrested, tried and sentenced to four years in prison — all in one day and with no defense attorney — on charges of being a ”pre-criminal social danger,” […]

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 […]

Cuba agrees to “kinda, sorta, maybe” talk about human rights with Spain and a new group called “Dialogue for Rights Coalition” naively thinks this means Castro’s cronies give a rat’s behind about human rights:
A new coalition of moderate Cuban opposition groups called Thursday for the creation of a human rights commission in the National […]

A few days ago, we noted on this blog that Spain’s government thinks being buddy-buddy with Castro is a good thing.
That gesture wasn’t forgotten by Cuba’s nearly forgotten dissidents:
The Spanish Embassy on Wednesday offered to meet with opponents of Cuba’s government after Madrid’s top diplomat ended a three-day official visit to Havana […]

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 […]

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 […]

One of our “friends” on the left has truly surprised me, pleasantly so. David Corn takes Ricardo Alarcon, AKA Fidel Castro’s parrot, to task for his hypocrisy in his blog on The Nation’s website:
… (Cuba’s National Assembly president and, as noted before, Castro parrot Ricardo) Alarcon’s concern for the plight of this one author […]

Senior Cuban officials are analyzing a pair of new labor laws taking affect next month as the island’s official media cranks up a campaign about the rules aimed at beefing up work productivity.
There’s more:
Cuban worker productivity plunged during the island’s economic crisis in the 1990s, brought on by the loss of its former Soviet partners.
Now, […]

They’ve tried keeping this under the radar, but the Miami Herald apparently has caught wind of a secret child custody battle where the child’s guardians are in the U.S.–but the father lives in Cuba:
A 4-year-old girl living in Coral Gables is at the center of an international custody dispute between the United States and […]

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 […]