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

in our colleges.

Alice Walker, who won the Pulitzer prize for her novel The Color Purple, is a useful idiot:
The Cuban government distributed a letter on Wednesday in which American author Alice Walker expressed her support to the children of five Cuban intelligence agents imprisoned in the United States.
Walker, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel […]

By violating the U.S. embargo:
“The fact that you’re not supposed to be there, that was the top for me,” said Amit, 29, a New York City native who visited Cuba in September 2006, shortly after the 81-year-old Castro fell ill and ceded power to his younger brother.
“I was like, ‘It’s time to […]

More MSM fawning over Castroites:
In Cuba, the spies are known as the “Five Heroes,” wrongfully imprisoned. Meanwhile, the man Havana considers responsible for the worst of terrorism in Cuba, Luis Posada Carriles, is a free man living legally in Miami. Posada is accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 passengers. To […]

WARNING: Don’t read this Guardian Unlimited piece about the bloody murderer Che Guevara while you’re eating.
Here’s a snippet, if you can stomach it:
Forty years later the anniversary of the death (of Che Guevara) is looming and the scene is transformed: the Cubans are back, socialism is back, and Che is officially […]

I think I’ll use this to wipe with instead:
Magda Montiel Davis’ current controversy comes as she is finishing a lengthy examination of her last.
The mother of five is now editing a 1,500-page manuscript for a book she calls The Kiss — about her affectionate encounter with Fidel Castro, then communist Cuba’s leader, a smooch […]

Elena Perez, the mother of the four-year-old Cuban girl at the heart of a bitter custody battle between the girl’s Miami-based foster family and her Cuba-based father, dropped a nuclear bomb in the courtroom this week. In trying to prove the father wanted his daughter back with him in Cuba, she had originally shown […]

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 […]

Sending two Cuban boxers back to prison over a technicality instead of letting them find asylum in another country, such as Germany, where they had applied for such:
Two Cuban boxers who abandoned the Pan American Games were deported from Brazil because of problems with their visas and not political pressure from Cuba, Brazil’s justice minister […]

Reporters are taught to question everything. That is, unless they’re dealing with Castro’s government:
Cuban President Fidel Castro is exercising daily and has regained the 40 pounds he lost after surgery last summer, and his health crisis is “definitely behind us,” Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told Mexico’s daily newspaper Reforma.
And…
Perez denied that Cuba […]