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

Cyril Richard Rescorla, better known as Rick. Born in England, he came to serve as an officer in the U.S. Army. He fought in Vietnam, in the battle of the Ia Drang Valley, made famous in the movie starring Mel Gibson, We Were Soldiers Once.
Rick was the VP of security for […]

Don’t forget to fly your flag at half-mast today to commemorate those who lost their lives six years ago today.
Never forget…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070904-6.html
Patriot Day, 2007
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
September 11, 2001, was a defining moment in American history. On that terrible day, our Nation saw the face of evil as 19 […]

Fidel warns of coming global recession
Fidel Castro warned on Tuesday that the world could be headed for a crisis reminiscent of the Great Depression and accused the United States of exploiting natural resources and countries around the globe.
”The picture is increasingly uncertain as we face the fear of a prolonged recession like that of the […]

You should’ve stayed home in Mother Russia:
They were young women romantically drawn to Fidel Castro’s revolution, a breath of fresh air on a distant Caribbean island for those who were disillusioned with Soviet communism.
But when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, hundreds of Russian women who married Cubans and moved to Cuba were […]

Castro’s ridiculousness reaches a new level now. It’s not enough that democracy is forbidden in practice; now the word itself is also verboten–even though it was only the name of a dance show:
However, working in Cuba has provided (Spanish choreographer Rafael) Bonachela with some unexpected challenges.
It was not the challenge of choreographing dancers […]

The Miami exile who led the mission to capture Ernesto Ché Guevara in the jungles of Bolivia is auctioning a treasure trove of memorabilia from the iconic figure’s last days.
Among the items for sale: A lock of Ché’s long, wavy hair snipped minutes before the rebel leader was buried in a common grave 40 years […]

So says his parrot, Felipe Perez Roque. The fact that Castro’s lackeys have to deny his death tells me he’s probably already roasting at very high temperatures.
In any event, Perez Rockhead’s “Castro ‘is fine’” comment has inspired me to write the following song parody, based on the Beatles’ “I Feel Fine.” […]

Before today, I’d never heard of the artist Victor Huerta Batista, who is based in Cuba. But I like the theme of some of his work, as it reflects the reality of Castro’s Cuba:
In Huerta’s “rampant imaginative world”–as (University of Arizona Museum of Art) curator Lisa Fischman calls it–the whole population of Cuba […]

Now that I’m married to a Jamaican-British beauty, I’m taking a greater interest in happenings on the island.
So I’d like to take this opportunity to ask you to help those harmed by Hurricane Dean. If you live in South Florida, you can drop off non-perishable (canned) food, batteries, flashlights, bottled water and […]

After last year’s song-and-dance over Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday, there isn’t much talk about his eighty-worst now. Granma’s English website just has a silly cartoon and some kiss-up letters from the five convicted spies serving their sentences in the U.S.
Funny, I wonder if they’d publish letters from the political prisoners languishing in Cuba’s prisons.
For that […]