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

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 […]

…since I last posted. A lot has been going on in my life lately, from the miniscule to the humongous:

My recent spat with the phone(y) company, as detailed here
I’m getting married in a little more than a month
I moved to a new place–rather, I’m still in the process of moving in (just got furniture […]

I’d like to wish a Happy Mother’s Day to the following:

My mother
My stepmother
My soon-to-be mother-in-law
My stepsister
My sister-in-law
Las Damas de Blanco, and any other Cuban mother who suffers because at least one of her children is in one of Castro’s many prisons simply because of what he or she believes
Any mother reading this

“The height of absurdity.”
For Granma, it’s more than a headline, it’s their entire philosophy.

Whatever they want to call themselves–AT&T, BellSouth, HellSouth, POS–they suck.
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted in a few days, it’s because my DSL disservice was disconnected. Not for lack of payment on my part, nor because I called to disconnect. But because a new neighbor (I live in a condo) gave […]

I suppose it’s okay to criticize ethanol use when it’s President Bush who proposes it, but not when its proposed by Brazil, eh Fidel?
Brazil, a world leader in alcohol fuel, expects to produce a record 5.34 billion gallons of ethanol in the current sugarcane season, up 13.5 percent from the harvest before, the Agriculture Ministry […]

Here’s an interesting story–from Pravda:
An exchanged (sic) of gunfire between border guards and drug traffickers aboard a boat off eastern Cuba led to killing of two suspected smugglers and wounding a third.
Here’s a funny line from the article:
“The government of Cuba laments the loss of human life that resulted during the clash caused by this […]

A new wrinkle to a story that’s been all over the blogs: a little Cuban girl who is the subject of a custody battle between her father in Cuba and family in the U.S., may see her father –here in the U.S.:
A fisherman in Cuba who is fighting for custody of his 4-year-old daughter […]

Looks as though the rock group The Police might be playing in a police state–Cuba:
The Police may be giving their Cuban fans a free show this Christmas.
The super rock group, which recently reunited for a sell-out world tour, has received an invitation from the Cuban government to perform there in December.
The Havana show would […]