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

A U.S. State Department spokesman hinted as much, according to an AFP story published on the La Nueva Cuba website:
“I would say that the Cuban government has always been very good at stirring the nest whenever they felt the need to,” said Gonzo Gallegos, a State Department spokesman.
“I can’t say whether or not this […]

Tomorrow (Monday) a big court date is set for the custody battle between the foster, and would be adoptive parents of a young Cuban girl in Miami, and her father from Cuba:
Nearly eight years after the battle over young Elian Gonzalez divided this city, another Cuban child has become the center of a bitter […]

Amid all the rumors of Castro’s death, a ghostwritten essay has appeared in the Juventud Rebelde (Rebellious Youth) newspaper in Cuba, supposedly just hot off the moribund caudillo’s typewriter:
Castro’s essay, the latest in dozens of ”Reflections of the Commander in Chief” columns he has published several times a week since late March, was […]

You have to wonder. All these Castroites coming out of the woodwork, denying Fidel’s death. The latest: Castro’s Mini-Me, Hugo Chavez:
“Fidel Castro will never die!”
Castro’s friend and ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent greetings to Cuba’s ailing leader during an address Saturday to thousands of supporters.
“For those who want Fidel to die, they […]

Of course, when you’re talking about Fidel Castro’s Cuba, being “freed” from prison is a relative term. After all, Cuba under the Castro brothers is nothing but a huge, open-air prison.
But I digress.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt Reina was released Monday. […]

Either these guys are kissing major butt, or they have the most deliciously wicked sense of sarcasm:
The Cuban Journalists Union (UPEC) granted “President” Fidel Castro the Prize to (sic) Dignity for his exceptional merits and his work in favor of the Cuban press.
Prize of Dignity?!?!?! To CASTRO!?!?!?! Har, har, I’ve been […]

At a time when the most visible movie related to Cuba is a sick(o), twisted propaganda piece on Castro’s so-called “health system,” here’s a breath of fresh air:
Now, more than a decade later, (niece of Brothers to the Rescue shootdown victim Armando Alejandre, Jr., Christina) Khuly wants to make the tragedy real for a […]

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 […]

That must mean he died, right? I mean, that’s the ONLY way he could truly be better. Well, at least the latest Granma press release, er, ASSociated Press dispatch says he’s doing “better.”
But according to this photo my brother sent me, I don’t know…
One thing’s for sure, now he looks like one of […]

Reporters are taught to question everything. That is, unless they’re dealing with Castro’s government:
Cuban President Fidel Castro is exercising daily and has regained the 40 pounds he lost after surgery last summer, and his health crisis is “definitely behind us,” Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told Mexico’s daily newspaper Reforma.
And…
Perez denied that Cuba […]