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

The latest issue of the Miami New Times has an interesting review of an exhibition of several photographers’ work. The exhibit is appropriately titled Cuba: As Time Stands Still, 2007.
Here are some good excerpts from the review:
Gallery owner Lourdes Guerra says this is the second time she has curated a show […]

US News & World Report this week has an article about a book written by Scott Carmichael (disclaimer: yes, the link is an affiliate link), a counterintelligence officer who helped catch the traitor and spy for Castro, Ana Belen Montes.
Here’s an interesting excerpt:
Carmichael wrote the book as a wake-up call to the […]

The guys at Babalu blog published this morning an excellent but simple (sometimes those are the best) post about the whole Cuba spy thing. It’s mostly a series of links to a number of good articles on the topic, so rather than just rehash it here, I’ll just direct you there.
Don’t miss […]

…to want your child to live in Castro’s hell.
As posted earlier on this blog, the Miami Herald is reporting that another potential Elian Gonzalez situation is brewing in Miami. A four-year-old girl is locked in a custody battle between her father in Cuba and relatives in Miami.
What makes this case different is the fact […]

The murderer Che Guevara is still dead. And the sun still rises in the east and sets in the west. And Fidel Castro’s government lies. A simple DNA test could prove Castro and his government are liars (as if daily life in Cuba didn’t…):
A former CIA operative and Cuban exile […]

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 […]

Not that we needed a report to let us know this. But I digress. The U.S. State Department just released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006. Here’s the State Department’s page about the report, and here’s the page on Cuba.
Surprise, surprise, the Cuba page is longer than heck. […]

The website of CBS 13 television from Sacramento, California, has a story titled “Man Who Built Raft Out Of Scraps To Sail To China.”
On the one hand, I wonder how this can be considered “news,” especially when you consider that just about every day, someone in Cuba is building a raft from scraps, […]

Well it’s been a few days since I’ve posted–I’ve been busy–but that hasn’t stopped the news from coming.
First, Babalu Blog posted Friday an UNCONFIRMED report the anti-Castro group Comandos F-4 has managed to steal weapons from a Cuban military unit, presumably in Cuba (as opposed to say, Angola). Babalu Blog notes that […]