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New May ‘08 poll

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Who do you think Fidel wants to win our presidential election?

Barack Obama

Ralph Nader

John McCain

Hillary Clinton

View Results

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BREAKING: Fidel Castro resigns UPDATE: More blog reactions

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

File this one in the “a half century late, a few billion dollars, thousands executed and imprisoned and millions of Cubans tormented short” category: Fidel Castro has resigned as dictator of Cuba:
An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term […]

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ANother reason NOT to vote Democrat (if you really care about Cuba)

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Barack Obama’s Houston campaign office–watch the disgusting video at Hot Air.
And then remember when you go vote.

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If they REALLY sparred,

Monday, February 11th, 2008

McCain would kick Fidel Castro’s defective ass:

Castro, McCain spar over Cuban torture in Vietnam
HAVANA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans torturing American prisoners of war in Vietnam.
At a campaign stop in Miami last month, […]

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“Hey guys, what do we do with Fidel’s carcass?”

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

“When should we stop pickling the Bearded One in formaldehyde?”
Interim president Raul Castro has officially convened the National Assembly for a Feb. 24 meeting to elect Cuba’s next president, amid speculation ailing Fidel Castro might not be its choice for the first time in almost five decades.

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Vote in our new poll for February 2008

Friday, February 1st, 2008

If you could’ve voted in Cuba’s elections last month, who would you have voted for President of Cuba?

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet

Martha Beatriz Roque

Armando Valladares

Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas

Elizardo Sanchez

Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva

Vladimiro Roca Antuñez

Oscar Espinosa Chepe

Normando Hernández González

Guillermo Fariñas

View Results

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Raul beats his brother Fidel

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Too bad it wasn’t with a two-by-four:
Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since he was sidelined by stomach surgery 18 months ago, got 98.3 percent of the votes cast in the district he represents in Santiago, Cuba’s second city.
But acting President Raul Castro won 99.4 percent of the ballots cast in his […]

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Castro Death Watch Exclusive: partial draft of Cuban ballot

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Castro Death Watch has obtained a piece of a draft copy of the ballot used in Cuba’s recent “election,” below. We say a “piece” because it was smuggled out of the island nation by a desperately hungry balsero who ate a large portion of it. The remaining portion includes notes and proofreading marks […]

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I like the headline…

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

“Vote may hasten Castro reign’s end:”
‘My basic duty is not to cling to office and even less to obstruct the path of younger people, but to pass on the experiences and ideas whose modest worth stems from the exceptional era in which I have lived,” Castro said in a letter to the Cuban people in […]

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To the rest of us, those with common sense and brains,

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

it IS nepotism:
Cuba’s ailing leader Fidel Castro has defended naming his brother Raul to stand in for him last year, saying no one in the communist country’s national assembly saw it as nepotism.
Of course no one in Cuba’s national disassembly sees Raul Castro taking over for brother Fidel as nepotism. Fidel himself told them […]

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