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Well, that?s a shock!
2007-08-30 01:53:00 What, Castro’s afraid more athletes might defect? Cuba won’t send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago, heeding Fidel Castro’s fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games. The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics. LOL! Be afraid, Fidel, be VERY ... More About: Shock , Defection , Well
Dead man predicting
2007-08-29 03:34:00 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 ... More About: Dead Man , Dead , Predict
What are they gonna do, upgrade their MiG jet fighters?
2007-08-28 03:08:00 …so they can shoot down unarmed Cessna turboprops, not just twin-engine models? Cuba has been upgrading its military arsenal since President Fidel Castro fell ill 13 months ago, to defend itself against a possible US invasion, senior officers told Trabajadores weekly on Monday. Har, har, har! That’s a good one! More About: Funnies , Fighters , Fighter , Gonna , Jet Fighter
Cuba behind dead Castro rumors?
2007-08-28 02:51:00 A U.S. State Department spokesman hinted as much, according to an AFP story published on the La Nueva Cuba website: “I would say that the Cuban government has always been very good at stirring the nest whenever they felt the need to,” said Gonzo Gallegos, a State Department spokesman. “I can’t say whether or not this ... More About: Rumors , Castro , Dead
August poll, last few days…
2007-08-27 14:42:00 Be sure to take our August poll as time is running out: Finish this sentence: A year without Fidel Castro is like a year without... ...one of the world's worst dictators. ...Stalin. ...darkness. ...Satan. What's the difference? As long as his brother Raul is there, nothing will change. All of the above. hemorroids bitchs n ho's Aquafina..cause you'll just grab a Zepher Hills (dictator) and the water (Cuba) will still the same. hemorrhoids a noose around your neck without boat-pepole shackles Add an Answer View Results More About: Poll
‘Fidel doesn’t matter’
2007-08-27 12:40:00 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 Castro’s departure from office. Gawd, I hope he’s wrong. But in any event, Raul is old himself. Except that maybe when his turn comes up, he’ll say yes to the colostomy bag.
Monday, Monday?
2007-08-26 20:39:00 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 ... More About: Politics , Media , Defection , Human Rights
Posthumous writing?
2007-08-26 20:21:00 Amid all the rumors of Castro’s death, a ghostwritten essay has appeared in the Juventud Rebelde (Rebellious Youth) newspaper in Cuba, supposedly just hot off the moribund caudillo’s typewriter: Castro’s essay, the latest in dozens of ”Reflections of the Commander in Chief” columns he has published several times a week since late March, was ... More About: Writing
Another day, another denial
2007-08-26 20:12:00 You have to wonder. All these Castroites coming out of the woodwork, denying Fidel’s death. The latest: Castro’s Mini-Me, Hugo Chavez: “Fidel Castro will never die!” Castro?s friend and ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent greetings to Cuba?s ailing leader during an address Saturday to thousands of supporters. “For those who want Fidel to die, they ... More About: Denial
The rumor mill is spinning?
2007-08-25 01:05:00 …like a windvane during a hurricane, with news that Fidel Castro is really, finally dead. Spanish- (and English-) language radio and TV, newspaper websites, blogs, even Drudge. Everyone’s talking about it–but acknowledging it as a rumor at this point. I myself saw little activity in Miami (related to celebrations, or anything similar), ... More About: Rumor , Spinning , Spinn
Take the August poll now, one week left
2007-08-24 14:03:00 The poll question is… Finish this sentence: A year without Fidel Castro is like a year without… More About: Poll , Left , Week , August
Shame on Brazil
2007-08-24 13:58:00 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 ... More About: Defection , Useful Idiots , Sham , Shame
Even in death he won?t shut up
2007-08-24 13:47:00 Yet he remains quiet about his health… possibly because his body temperature is now the same as room temperature? A new newspaper column signed by Fidel Castro and published Thursday again attacks U.S. policies toward the island but does not address his health. Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque told journalists in Brazil on Thursday that the 81-year-old ... More About: Death , Shut , Shut Up
First person to be arrested under new law: Fidel Castro
2007-08-24 13:42:00 Anti-corruption laws toughened in Cuba Acting leader Raúl Castro has ordered harsher penalties for public officials who break labor rules. Ratcheting up his fight against corruption and mismanagement in Cuba, interim leader Raúl Castro has signed a decree requiring tough, swift and long-lasting punishment for public officials who violate labor rules. If slavery is illegal under this new ... More About: Economy , Arrested , Fidel Castro
Castro is ?fine?
2007-08-24 04:42:00 So says his parrot, Felipe Perez Roque. The fact that Castro ’s lackeys have to deny his death tells me he’s probably already roasting at very high temperatures. In any event, Perez Rockhead’s “Castro ‘is fine’” comment has inspired me to write the following song parody, based on the Beatles’ “I Feel Fine .” ...
Art imitating the reality of Cuba
2007-08-23 14:07:00 Before today, I’d never heard of the artist Victor Huerta Batista, who is based in Cuba . But I like the theme of some of his work, as it reflects the reality of Castro’s Cuba: In Huerta’s “rampant imaginative world”–as (University of Arizona Museum of Art) curator Lisa Fischman calls it–the whole population of Cuba ... More About: Reality , Ality
Dictator 4 Life
2007-08-22 03:36:00 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 ... More About: Politics , Life , Venezuela , Dictator
Cuban journalist ?freed? from prison
2007-08-22 03:10:00 Of course, when you’re talking about Fidel Castro’s Cuba, being “freed” from prison is a relative term. After all, Cuba under the Castro brothers is nothing but a huge, open-air prison. But I digress. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt Reina was released Monday. ... More About: Media , Human Rights , Freedom of the Press , Prison
Shyeah, this?ll win the Cuban-American vote
2007-08-21 15:25:00 Obama, Obama, Obama. It takes more than a speech in Little Havana to endear yourself to Cuban -American s. 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 ... More About: Politics , Vote , Yeah
A year without Fidel Castro is like a year without? (August poll)
2007-08-21 13:46:00 Don’t forget to take the August poll. The poll question is… Finish this sentence: A year without Fidel Castro is like a year without… More About: Poll , Fidel Castro , Year
Is Castro (finally) dead?
2007-08-20 15:25:00 Lots of rumors floating around that Fidel Castro is finally dead. Babalu Blog has a few posts dedicated to the topic, here’s the latest one. The Caudillo Maximo hasn’t posted any new blatherings on his propaganda website. Castro’s Mini-Me, Hugo Chavez, is denying Castro is dead (and we all know how good a commie’s word is). The fact that, ... More About: Dead , Finally , Fina , Ally
Aww, poow widdle babies
2007-08-20 14:10:00 The five CONVICTED (that’s right, CONVICTED) spies Castro sent to the U.S. (disclaimer: link goes to a website I own) are appealing their prison sentences. Why? Because, {sniff, sniff} they say their sentences are {whine, whine} too long: Almost nine years after their arrest, five Cubans convicted of spying on the U.S. government and South Florida exile groups ... More About: Babies , Anti-Communism , Babi
Help Jamaica - Hurricane Dean
2007-08-20 14:01:00 Now that I’m married to a Jamaica n-British beauty, I’m taking a greater interest in happenings on the island. So I’d like to take this opportunity to ask you to help those harmed by Hurricane Dean . If you live in South Florida, you can drop off non-perishable (canned) food, batteries, flashlights, bottled water and ... More About: Hurricane Dean , Cane
Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee, ho, ho, ho?
2007-08-16 04:45:00 Either these guys are kissing major butt, or they have the most deliciously wicked sense of sarcasm: The Cuban Journalists Union (UPEC) granted “President” Fidel Castro the Prize to (sic) Dignity for his exceptional merits and his work in favor of the Cuban press. Prize of Dignity?!?!?! To CASTRO!?!?!?! Har, har, I’ve been ...
Unhappy birthday to you
2007-08-14 02:48:00 After last year’s song-and-dance over Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday, there isn’t much talk about his eighty-worst now. Granma’s English website just has a silly cartoon and some kiss-up letters from the five convicted spies serving their sentences in the U.S. Funny, I wonder if they’d publish letters from the political prisoners languishing in Cuba’s prisons. For that ... More About: Birthday
Brothers to the Rescue documentary in the works
2007-08-06 03:25:00 At a time when the most visible movie related to Cuba is a sick(o), twisted propaganda piece on Castro’s so-called “health system,” here’s a breath of fresh air: Now, more than a decade later, (niece of Brothers to the Rescue shootdown victim Armando Alejandre, Jr., Christina) Khuly wants to make the tragedy real for a ... More About: Media , Documentary , Anti-Communism , Works
August Castro Death Watch poll
2007-08-02 13:01:00 Wow, where has July gone? In case you’re wondering, other than a very brief (as in, WAAAAAAY too brief) honeymoon (yes, I got married, on July 7th), I did not go on vacation. I’ve just been extremely busy and will probably be just as busy this month. But at least I got ... More About: Watch , Poll , Castro , Death , August
Tie goes to? (July poll question)
2007-07-03 03:16:00 Okay, last month’s poll question was quite lame (yes, I know, and it’s not the only lame post I’ve ever done here). In case you’re wondering, last month’s poll question was simply a list of suggestions for this month’s poll question. And we have a tie. Because one of the winners (When ... More About: Question , Poll , July , Goes
As Castro?s health improves,
2007-06-21 02:45:00 the health of journalists unjustly condemned to Castro ’s Gulag during the Black Spring of 2003 suffers: Families and friends of eight independent Cuban journalists who have been unjustly imprisoned since 2003 say that the health of their loved ones has seriously deteriorated in recent months amid poor prison conditions and insufficient health care. In a series ... More About: Health , Human Rights , Freedom of the Press , Rove
Si Dios fuera negro, mi compai*
More articles from this author:2007-06-21 02:38:00 He wouldn’t want to live in Cuba: “Their rights and protection from potential genocide and violence depended on them never trying to organize politically as blacks,” said Mark Sawyer, a UCLA professor who spent 11 months in Cuba researching his recently published book, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba. That kind of talk also likely scares ... More About: Human Rights , Dios , Negro , Compa 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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