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

Chavez wants to rule days:
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some Venezuelans fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom.
All Venezuelan schools, both public and private, must submit to state inspectors enforcing the new educational system. Those […]

Ew, gag. The thought of Janet Reno repulses me. Now apparently she put together a three-CD music set (of other people’s music, of course) and the MSM is once again fawning all over her.
It’s called–get ready to laugh–Song of America. Should’ve been called Song of Anti-America. They’re calling it a “musical […]

Here’s an excerpt of the review of what sounds like a fascinating film:
Fernando and Marie give up their respective jobs as lawyer and writer for Marie Claire magazine and become intimately involved with Salvador Allende’s election in Chile. Soon, they have fired Filomena (the Cuban nanny), who hates Castro and all the “rojos barbudos” (bearded […]

As if we needed any more:
Democrat Christopher Dodd pledged Saturday that as president he would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the communist island.
The Connecticut senator also said he would open an embassy in Havana and shut down the 17-year-old TV Marti, a U.S. government-run station that broadcasts […]

Answer: P-r-i-s-o-n-e-r r-e-l-e-a-s-e-s u-n-d-e-r R-a-ú-l C-a-s-t-r-o. That’s part of the headline (the whole thing reads Prisoner releases under Raúl Castro raise hope for Cuba) of a Christian Science Monitor piece that naively suggests the Castros do ANYTHING out of altruistic feelings:
The steady fall in Cuba’s political prisoner population since Raúl Castro took the reins […]

Posthumous predictions from Castro today in Granma:
Today, talk is about the seemingly invincible ticket that might be created with Hillary for President and Obama for Vice President.
Something very telling in Castro’s posthumous musings: he likes Carter and Clinton:
OF all the presidents of the United States, and those who aspire to that office, I […]

That’s the headline of a brief item by Brazil correspondent Jonathan Wheatley of the Financial Times. Here’s the money quote:
It has been clear since last summer when the president’s younger brother, Raúl, smoothly took over the reins of power on a temporary basis that the institutions of Cuban communism were strong enough to survive Mr […]

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 […]

Venezuela’s rubber-stamp congress moved closer to allowing Fidel Castro’s parrot, Hugo Chavez, to become dictator for life (or for a very long time at least). They gave the initial thumbs up to a series of so-called “reforms” that would allow Mini-Me, er, Chavez, to stay in office for a seven-year term rather than the […]

Obama, Obama, Obama. It takes more than a speech in Little Havana to endear yourself to Cuban-Americans. You’re already starting out with a handicap: you belong to the wrong political party. And now this?
”We regret that Sen. Obama has been so ill-advised as to assume that lifting sanctions against Cuba’s dictatorial regime will bring about […]