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

night follows day, the sun rises in the east, water is wet and Cuba’s leader tells another whopper:
As a practical matter, it is impossible for this or any other newspaper to set the record straight every time the Cuban government tells a whopper. Orchestrating lies is the specialty of police states. Anyone who has ever […]

With Cubans now able to buy microwaves, cellphones and hotel room stays (never mind they barely make enough to buy their next meals), what will Raul Castro “let” Cubans buy next?

A car manufactured in this millenium

Fidel’s picture–on toilet paper

One-way plane tickets to the U.S.

Boats

Their freedom

Che Guevara’s picture–on a dartboard

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…being reported as news? Yep, when it has to do with Castro’s Cuba, right is wrong, yes is no, left is right and the obvious is newsworthy:
Cuba’s parliament named Raul Castro president on Sunday, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel but leaving the island’s communist system unshaken.
In a surprise […]

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 […]

…since your big brother took ill. Break my freakin’ heart:
I’ve got little time to read books. I’ll die with hundreds of books I’ve got waiting there for me to read some day … but for now, lots of (official) papers” to handle, Raul said on opening the International Book Fair in Havana.
Lots of other […]

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 […]

And, how does a communist government spell “appearing tolerant?”
P-r-e-t-e-n-d t-o a-l-l-o-w c-r-i-t-i-c-i-s-m:
Interim President Raúl Castro has called publicly for criticism, saying that the only way to fix the country’s many problems is to air them.
But, but, but…
…skeptics say such a debate was held before, and was cut off when the onslaught of grievances was […]

As long as Fidel Castro remains “officially” (if not clinically) alive:
Cuba watchers and some dissidents question whether Raúl Castro will be able to implement his reforms as long as his older brother is alive. Fidel Castro’s presence would likely deter even modest economic reforms, they said.
“In a sense, the Raulista project, if you can […]