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

No surprise that the government of Al Qaeda appeasers in Spain would show deference to Castro:
Spain’s foreign minister made an ice-breaking visit to Cuba on Monday, the most senior European Union government official to go to the island since a 2003 dispute over the arrests of dissidents.
Miguel Ángel Moratinos said his official trip marked a […]

It’s April Fool’s Day today. So that must mean these Castro apologists are kidding, right?
From today’s Hartford (Connecticut) Courant:
That all changed after Fidel took the reins and shut down Mafia-owned casinos. American tourism dropped, but in 1970, groups of Connecticut students spent two-month stints in Cuba’s sugar fields, cutting cane in support of the […]

So what else is new? The MSM rarely hides its adulation of Castro. Look at this AFP (surprise, surprise, Agence FRANCE-Presse) piece, if you can stomach it:
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, sidelined by intestinal surgery almost eight months ago, is now recovering at a faster pace, taking part in daily government affairs, and fueling […]

The Huffington Post–or as James Taranto of Opinion Journal calls it, the Puffington Host–published yesterday an, ahem, “interesting” piece calling for lifting the embargo against Castro’s Cuba. I’m puzzled by the title of the piece: U.S. Policy “Disserves” the Cuban People.
I say I’m puzzled because they put scare quotes around the word […]

Just like Castro to bite the hand that feeds him and spits on those who help him out. After noting yesterday how Cuba was honoring–suprise, surprise–a New York Times reporter, we come to learn today, thanks to columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, that Castro once turned on said reporter, Herbert Matthews:
But the curious […]

The Castro government recently honored a useful idiot, the late but not so great New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews. Reuters published a gushing piece that reads like a Granma dispatch (it was actually released by the Cuban government’s press agency, Prensa Latina). Especially telling is a passage that reveals how useful an idiot […]

Anyone remember Magda Montiel Davis, the lawyer who kissed Castro on his cheeks (I should point out she may have been caught on video kissing him on his facial cheeks, but she’s been kissing him on his other cheeks ever since, if you know what I mean).
The St. Pete Times has done a fluff piece […]

Today the Miami Herald published two excellent letters to the editor critical of the Bolívarian Youth. We talked about these useful idiots a few days ago, but just to refresh your memory, they’re the instigators who counter-demonstrated at the Posada Carriles rally in Little Havana a few weeks ago.
On their website, the Herald titled […]