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July-August 2011 Castro Death Watch Poll
2011-07-13 03:48:00 Visit Castro Death Watch .com for more! More About: Poll
A Forced Re-design and an Apology
2011-07-11 05:07:00 As you can see the blog’s design has changed. I apologize for any inconvenience. Heck, it was inconvenient for me; I started out simply updating the software that runs this blog and it caused... Visit CastroDeathWatch.com for more! More About: Design , Forced
Another Astonishing Castro admission
2010-09-09 05:35:00 Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba ’s communist economic model doesn’t work… The wonders never cease. Visit CastroDeathWatch.com for more! More About: Economy
Another reason to throw a brick throw the boob tube
2010-07-15 02:33:00 Fidel Castro appears on TV PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait… Visit CastroDeathWatch.com for more! More About: Tube , Boob Tube , Reason , Throw
July 2010 Castro Death Watch poll
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Site redesign/maintenance coming soon
2010-06-14 12:47:00 I’m going to be redesigning Castro Death Watch soon–as soon as I have some time, which seems to be never these days. The site may actually be down a few hours while this happens. Which... Visit CastroDeathWatch.com for more! More About: Site , Maintenance , Redesign
June 2010 Castro Death Watch Poll
2010-06-02 04:18:00 For more info (in Spanish) about La Organizacion de Jovenes Exiliados Cubanos (O-JEC) and their seven-day walk for Cuban freedom from Key West (El Camino a la libertad de Cuba), visit O-JEC’s... Visit Castro Death Watch .com for more! More About: June , Poll
May 2010 Castro Death Watch Poll (Mother?s Day Edition)
2010-05-05 02:20:00 (For more on this, read this news release from Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas’ office). Visit Castro Death Watch .com for more! More About: Poll , Mother
April 2010 Castro Death Watch Poll
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5 Things You Need To Know For A Wedding In Cuba
2008-06-06 01:57:00 Inspired by this travel piece that was linked to by Babalu Blog, I’ve decided to post my own version of “5 Things You Need To Know For A Wedding In Cuba :” Selecting a church: Fidel and Raul Castro ’s communist Cuba is atheist, so good luck there. But hey, maybe if you promise to change Fidel’s colostomy ...
Venezuela?s CDR
2008-06-03 05:09:00 One of the most vile institutions imposed on Cuba’s people by the Castro regime is the neighborhood snitch program known officially as “El Comite para la Defensa de la Revolucion” (The Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, or CDR, which happens to be its initials in both English and Spanish). The way the CDR works ... More About: Venezuela
Castro Death Watch June ?08 poll
2008-06-03 01:27:00 When do you think Raul will announce Fidel Castro 's death? This summer This fall, around the time of our elections Christmastime, as a gift to Miami--and the world In January--to "celebrate" the anniversary of the accursed revolution View Results More About: Watch , June , Poll , Death
Castro endorses Obama - May ?08 poll
2008-05-29 04:43:00 Now that we know who Castro would vote for in our upcoming presidential election, the choice should be clear: Who do you think Fidel wants to win our presidential election? Barack Obama Hillary Clinton John McCain Ralph Nader View Results More About: Politics , Poll
We should all be grateful?
2008-05-26 22:10:00 … to those who have served and are serving. God bless the troops, God bless our veterans, God bless America and God bless Cuba Libre.
Cuba Solidarity Day May 21
2008-05-19 02:28:00 Don’t forget Cuba Solidarity Day on May 21, this coming Wednesday. Visit the website for more information.
Cuba Nostalgia
2008-05-19 02:08:00 I had a chance to visit Cuba Nostalgia today (Sunday, the last day of the three-day festival of Cubanness) for the first time ever. The weather was hot, dry, smoky, the sky tinged with an odd orange glow. But the food was great. And Cuba Nostalgia itself was great. And right ...
Castro regime takes a kick to the groin?
2008-05-13 02:17:00 …as Cuban female judo champion disappears and possibly defects to the US during a tournament in Miami: The Cuban contingent that competed in last week’s Pan American Judo Championships left Miami for Havana on Monday afternoon without gold-medal-winning judoka Yurisel Laborde, who left the group Sunday afternoon. As I write this post, no official word on Laborde’s ... More About: Defection , Castro , Kick
Why no display on Castro?s prisons?
2008-05-09 03:22:00 Because I’ve long been a big fan of Irish rock group U2, I–in my naive youth–briefly joined Shamnesty International after U2 gave them a free plug during a concert. But then I got older and–as Winston Churchill noted–became more conservative and wiser. And I terminated my membership in the organization. This news ... More About: Human Rights , Display , Castro
Ho hum, in other obvious news,
2008-05-06 03:07:00 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 ... More About: News , Media , Human Rights , Obvious , Raul Castro
New May ?08 poll
2008-05-05 02:56:00 Who do you think Fidel wants to win our presidential election? Hillary Clinton Barack Obama John McCain Ralph Nader View Results More About: Politics , Poll
April 08 poll: what will Cubans be able to buy next?
2008-04-05 21:58:00 With Cuba ns 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 Boats One-way plane tickets to the U.S. Fidel's picture--on toilet paper Che Guevara's picture--on a dartboard Their freedom View Results More About: Economy , April , Poll
Wild, wild horses, couldn?t keep Cubans from yearning for freedom
2008-03-13 03:35:00 Or wild colts, as the case may be. Remember last year when Cuba’s chief propagandist, Ramiro Valdes, said Cuba needs to tame “the wild colt of new technologies” (meaning the Internet)? Well, via the wonderful blog Bilingual in the Boonies, today I learned about a new blog from Cuba (yes, fron INSIDE Castro’s ... More About: Freedom , Freedom of the Press , Wild , Horses , Cubans
Out of commission
2008-03-13 02:38:00 In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted in a while, it’s simply because I’ve been (and will more than likely continue to be through the end of this month) excruciatingly busy in both my personal and professional lives. So there you have it. My apologies for any inconvenience. I’ll at least ... More About: Commission
New Poll for March 08
2008-03-03 19:32:00 Now that Fidel Castro is (officially, anyway) no longer in charge in Cuba, what do you think will change? Absolutely nothing. Just cosmetics: a few minor, token changes designed specifically to dupe the West into thinking Cubans will be better off under Raul. Cuba will move to the China or Vietnam model. Cuba will be (snicker, snicker) free. View Results More About: Poll , March
Spam from castrodeathwatch.com e-mail addresses
2008-02-28 03:40:00 If you’ve received spam from an address ending in “@castrodeathwatch.com,” please know it did not come from me or this blog/website. It seems some spammer is spoofing (faking) his/her/its e-mail addresses by using a made up @castrodeathwatch.com e-mail address. According to Wikipedia’s e-mail spoofing entry, “By changing certain properties of the e-mail, such ... More About: Mail , Spam , E-Mail
Someone from across the pond who gets it
2008-02-27 03:01:00 Probably because he–Daniel Finkelstein–his father and his grandfather were all victims of Stalin’s oppression. Yep, that might explain why someone might not be too fond of Fidel Castro: Those cigars, those battle fatigues, that beard. Kinda cool, no? No. Death sentences for those who want to flee, prison sentences for dissidents, gags for the press, ... More About: Anti-Communism , Pond
Foregone conclusion from rubber-stamp committee?
2008-02-25 00:27:00 …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 ... More About: Stamp , Committee , Rubber
Fark blogger: Castro?s ?resignation? prompted by his death
2008-02-21 03:32:00 Make of this what you will, but I found it interesting. Fark blogger Drew Curtis comes to his own conclusion as to why Fidel Castro ’s “resignation” was announced at 3AM and not at a more convenient time: The only valid reason to make an announcement like that at 3am was that the government was ... More About: Blogger , Death , Resignation
The February 2008 poll: President of Cuba (corrected)
2008-02-21 01:40:00 [Ed. note: sorry, I previously typed in the code for a past poll. The correct poll is below.] Okay, now that the bearded one has resigned and we’ll (hopefully) shortly see a free Cuba , who do you think should be its first president? Vote below. If you could've voted in Cuba's elections last month, who ... More About: President , Poll , February 2008 , February
Castro could face charges in Brothers to the Rescue shootdown
More articles from this author:2008-02-20 19:20:00 A big “Thanks” to Babalu Blog for pointing this one out: A Florida congresswoman asked the Justice Department yesterday to bring charges against resigning Cuban leader Fidel Castro for the deaths of four U.S. rescue workers who were killed while looking for Cuban migrants stranded at sea. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said earlier attempts to prosecute ... More About: Brothers , Face , Rescue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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