Truth about Cuba hard to find in MSM

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Oct 162007

But every once in a while you stumble upon a gem like this piece titled “Truth hard to find in Cuba, press panel says” in today’s Sun-Sentinel:

From outlawed satellite dishes to jammed radio signals, Cubans face an obstacle course of government controls over information as their island settles into new leadership.

This was the picture drawn Monday by panelists at the general assembly of the Inter American Press Association, where experts discussed how news gets in and out of communist Cuba. The forum came more than a year after President Fidel Castro fell ill and passed the reins of power to his brother Raul.

Castro’s health is a state secret in Cuba, where officials impose tight controls on domestic news. The Cuban government publishes the country’s main newspapers and transmits its domestic newscasts, which in turn act as vehicles for policy announcements.

Read the rest here.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 7:28 am

Castro, Chavez shat?

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Oct 142007

Oh, they said “chat.” I got a little confused. You see, it seems every time Castro or Chavez fart, the MSM is all over them like flies on, well, you know:

Castro, Chavez Chat in Live Broadcast
Castro Chats With Venezuelan Leader in First Live Appearance on Cuban Airwaves Since Illness

Fidel Castro made his first live appearance on Cuban airwaves since falling ill 14 months ago, sounding lucid and in good humor as he exchanged praise and jokes Sunday with the Venezuelan president.

You guys forgot to mention Castro also received praise from the jokes in the MSM. What a load of… you know what.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 8:03 pm

The Cuban “health care” system exposed on Fox News tonight

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Oct 102007

I got this item from Babalu Blog.

Tonight on Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes (9PM Eastern time), the Cuban so-called “health care” system will be exposed. Fox will air footage taken in Cuba without Fidel Castro’s permission, which means you’ll get to see the unvarnished truth for once, rather than the propaganda Castro spoon feeds our MSM.

As I understand it, the footage comes courtesy of the guys at The Real Cuba.

BTW, this is footage that was offered to ABC for their recent special exposing the lies in Michael Moore’s Sicko, but ABC declined to air. Oddly enough, Babalu Blog notes ABC’s Havana bureau was “questioned” by Castroite officials before the show aired. Coincidence? Ha, and I’m Santa Claus.

Meanwhile, in more news on Castro’s medical system, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting today that, as their headline puts it, “Hundreds of Cuban medical workers defecting to U.S. while overseas.” Here’s a little snippet:

The Cuban government’s plan was for Beny Alfonso Rodriguez to help lead a group of 72 Cuban doctors on a medical mission in the town of Macarapana, Venezuela.

But Rodriguez, a former soldier, lasted four months. He joined the mission with one thing in mind: to flee Cuba.

“I was born into the revolution, but I didn’t choose it,” says Rodriguez, who arrived in Miami in April.

Ah, the money quote: “I was born into the revolution, but I didn’t choose it.” There you have it, folks. So much for the socialist parasite paradise.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 7:31 am

Che is still very dead, Fred

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Oct 092007

Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of Cuba’s (a foreigner, to boot) bloodiest murderers, Che Guevara. And the MSM and leftists worlwide are participating in one big circle jerk to “commemorate” the very dead a-hole.

Where are the commemorations for his victims?

Where are the news articles about the widows and orphans he caused?

I’m shocked to see the San Francisco Chronicle of all newspapers publish an article titled “Bolivia marks capture, execution of ‘Che’ Guevara 40 years ago” and starting out like this:

Gary Prado, the former Bolivian soldier who captured Ernesto “Che” Guevara, is angry the renowned Argentine revolutionary still has legions of fans four decades later.

“There was nothing of the heroic guerrilla about him,” Prado, 68, said at his home here. “The attention Che Guevara has received is totally disproportionate to his reality.”

Indeed, too bad his sycophants didn’t get to taste some of Che’s reality. They might be singing a different tune today.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 7:43 am

What’s REALLY illegal is the Castro regime

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Oct 022007

Every Cuban who can escape the slow death sentence that is “life” under Castro, is escaping, and the MSM calls it an “Illegal flow of Cubans.” No, what’s REALLY illegal is Castro’s usurpation of power.

Read on:

The number of Cubans leaving their communist-run country by sea is steadily increasing and has reached the highest level since a mass exodus in 1994, according to new US figures.

Fiscal 2007 figures showed twice as many Cubans arriving in the US without travel documents are doing so via Mexico instead of crossing the Florida Straits.

US officials said good weather and calm summer waters had contributed to the rising number of Cubans departing by sea, though the absence of hope for change in Cuba in the year after Cuban leader Fidel Castro fell ill was driving more Cubans to leave.

“At bottom, the reason why people are willing to risk their lives to leave Cuba is the lack of hope and expectations,” said the US consul-general in Havana, Sean Murphy.

Yep, that’s the socialist paradise for you.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 6:57 am

MSM’s appalling coverage of Castro’s Cuba

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Sep 282007

Castro farts in a new video, the MSM is all over it.

The Cuban delegate to the Useless Nations acts like a petulant child during President Bush’s speech, that gets coverage like crazy.

Dissidents–21 of them–get arrested in Cuba, and you’re lucky to find a handful of buried headlines. If that.

The MSM apparently is either sympathetic to Castro, lazy (accepting the Castro regime’s numerous “news” dispatches as gospel without doing any digging for truth) or more concerned with the phony “prestige” of having a Havana bureau than it is with having journalistic ethics.

It should be a mark of pride for journalists to get kicked out of Cuba for coverage that lets the world know of the Castro regime’s outrages. One such reporter–Gary Marx–is set to receive an award for his truthful coverage of Cuba. Ironically, it’s coming from Columbia University (yes, THAT Columbia University).

Marx is receiving the award–the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean–for “reporting [that] was devoid of the ideological side-taking that often taints journalistic stories about Cuba.”

How much coverage do you think Mr. Marx is getting for his award? I did a search of Yahoo! News and came up with just one hit.

Pathetic.

UPDATE:

The numbers arrested in yesterday’s government crackdown on dissidents in Cuba is not clear, but it’s estimated to be between 21 and 40. Most, if not all of the arrestees appear to have been released–notice we said released, because nobody who lives in Cuba is truly free.

The arrests took place apparently to keep the dissidents from joining a protest demanding better treatment for Cuba’s political prisoners. My guess is that once the damage was done (that is, the dissidents were prevented from making the political prisoner protest larger and more embarrassing for the Castro government), Raul Castro decided to release the arrested dissidents to prevent Myanmar-like condemnation on him. The Castros are evil, but they’re not stupid. You can read more about this situation at Marc Mas Ferrer’s blog, Uncommon Sense.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 7:38 am

Breaking News: father fit to care for girl, judge says

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Sep 272007

The Miami Herald is reporting Judge Jeri Cohen has decided the father is fit to have custody of the five-year-old foster girl whose mother brought her and her brother to the U.S., paving the way for her return into Castro’s clutches.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 12:11 pm

Today’s the big day…

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Sep 272007

…for the little Cuban girl whose life is in the hands of a judge who had previously said “If we deport people back to Cuba, we could empty our jails:”

The judge in a contentious child custody dispute is expected to reveal today her ruling on whether a Cuban father is a fit parent to his 5-year-old daughter.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jeri B. Cohen had indicated initially she would release her ruling to the public Wednesday, but shifted course after attorneys for the girl’s father, Rafael Izquierdo, objected to the release of the document to the media.

Instead, Cohen will read her ruling in open court. The proceedings are scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.

Pray for the little girl. ANd pray for the judge to make the right decision.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 7:31 am

More on the death (or apparent lack thereof) of Fidel Castro

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Sep 232007

With a new video out on the tyrant Fidel Castro (I wonder if the folks who made Osama’s video made Fidel’s), everyone’s scrambling.

Castro’s supporters–and I include many in the MSM–are gloating over the fact that he’s apparently still alive. Many of the headlines proclaimed that Castro appeared “stronger” in the video. Shyeah, stronger than death maybe? If these folks who wrote about Castro glowingly knew a lick of Spanish they’d know that Castro, like Bin Laden, rambled incoherently. Or maybe they do know Spanish (or they’ve hired interpreters), but are willing accomplices in the Castro government’s propaganda blitz.

I found an interesting comment in a posting on the Castro dead/alive issue on Babalu Blog. The comment was made by Tomas Estrada-Palma, great grandson of the first president of Cuba:

Lets face facts…Fidel is either dead or brain dead.

Now, the brain dead hypothesis might not be exactly right, but I think there’s something there. Castro rambles incoherently and he appears to have Alzheimer’s on the video, yet if I’m not mistaken, he hadn’t shown any symptoms of the disease before his surgery last year for an intestinal ailment.

So, I’m going to guess here, maybe he came across as incoherent because he was doped up heavily on pain medication–precisely because it would have been the only way they could’ve gotten him on video. In other words, my guess is he had one foot in the grave but the communist government of Cuba wanted to poke its enemies in the eyes one more time, not to mention keep the masses under control. And with the willing help of the MSM saying Castro appeared “stronger” and “healthier,” the regime’s job is made easier.

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 9:13 am

It’s alive!

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Sep 212007

Joan Crawford Fidel Castro has risen from the grave.   Cuban TV aired a video today of the pale, sickly looking dictator, with the obligatory references to current events. 

Now the Castro (and all commie) government(s) is(are) manipulative as all get out, so I wouldn’t put anything past them. But my guess is the Castro death rumors that ran around a few weeks ago were based on news that his “recovery” had taken a turn for the better worse, and now he has somehow managed to pull out of it. For him and his cronies, though, it’s probably a bonus that once again, he gets to laugh at his enemies in Miami.

No matter, though. At 81, he has but a few laughs left before we get the last laugh. Besides, if he laughs too hard, he might bust a gut. Literally.

This whole situation has inspired me to write a song parody, below. It’s based on a song by the Blue Oyster Cult… called Joan Crawford has Risen from the Dead:

Chivatos down in Havana are going crazy
They’re laughing just like hungry dogs in the street
Militantes are hiding behind the skirts of little girls
Their eyes have turned the color of frozen meat

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave

Jineteras have thrown away their mascara
They chain themselves to the axles of Chinese trucks
The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels
The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave

Raulito
Daddy’s home
Huguito
Come to father
Raulito

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen

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Posted by Castro Death Watch at 11:21 pm
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