By Rosa Maria Paya in Translating Cuba: Call for a Plebescite, Yes or No YES or NO? [See full text below]. Poster by Rolando Pulido Let no one speak again for all Cubans. Ask them in a plebiscite. “Let them call free and democratic elections on the basis of a new electoral law and an [...]

PRESS RELEASE May 2, 2013 Obama Administration Granting Mariela Castro Another Visa to Receive Gay Rights Award Is Yet One More Concession to the Regime, Says Ros-Lehtinen “The words ‘equality’ and ‘human rights’ don’t exist in the vocabulary of the Castro tyranny”  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and [...]

Roger Noriega at InterAmerican Security Watch: Venezuelans Resist an Illegitimate and Violent Regime A majority of Venezuelans has voted for change and now has no choice but to resist a regime that can hold on to power only with violence. Is the election in Venezuela over? Apparently not. The self-declared winner, Nicolás Maduro, is behaving [...]

The humor of Santana in El Nuevo Herald: "Our Cuban comrades are even teaching us how to converse with the opposition."

And interesting and revealing article by James Varney in The Times-Picayune: Capitalists cavorting in Cuba? For an unabashed capitalist, there are more agreeable sights than "grandiose portraits" of the Communist executioner Che Guevara. On the other hand, it's far better to gaze upon Guevara's portrait with a tropical breeze at your back than upon the [...]

Via Penúltimos Días, Manuel Zayas digs up some old Cuban regime newspapers extolling the virtues of the Castro dictatorship's Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP) camps, which in reality were concentration camps for gay Cubans. Any Cuban suspected of being gay or deemed to be too effeminate would be rounded up by Cuban State Security [...]

Ebony Magazine is encouraging its readers to "do Cuba" like Beyonce and Jay-Z did Cuba when they vacationed there as VIP guests of the Castro dictatorship. In other words, Ebony Magazine is telling its readers to visit Cuba and ignore the apartheid regime that persecutes and oppresses black Cubans. They are encouraging their readers to [...]

Daniel Greenfield in Frontpage Mag: Communist Dictatorship That Rounded Up Gay Men into Concentration Camps to Receive Gay Rights Award No pinkwashing to see here. Just the solidarity of the left. Mariela Castro, the daughter of a certain Communist dictator named Raul, will arrive in Philly pick up an award from a gay anti-bullying group. [...]

The Castro dictatorship has been hiding fugitive cop killer Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur) in Cuba since she escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979. She is one of the dozens if not hundreds of international fugitives, murderers, and terrorists who find safe haven in the arms of the criminal Cuban regime. Today, the [...]

PRESS RELEASE May 1st, 2013 No Change in Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism Reaffirms the Threat Posed by the Castro Regime, Says Ros-Lehtinen Ileana also calls for North Korea to be re-designated as a State Sponsor of Terror “Cuba also continues to operate its vast spy network within the United States, posing [...]

By Fernando Damaso in Translating Cuba: Mottoes and Slogans A month ago I wrote about the motto that will preside over the May Day celebration in Cuba: United for a Prosperous and Sustainable Socialism. I thought anyone with half a brain would realize the absurdity of that and would recommend replacing it with something more [...]

Via The Daily Beast, David Frum exposes the not-so-cool Ché Guevara: "If the CIA had done a better job publicizing this photo of Che Guevera, a lot of student dorm rooms would look less morally idiotic."

Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Cuba undergoes its 2nd Universal Periodic Review before the UN Human Rights Council today "Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness." - W.L. Watkins  The state of Cuba undergoes its second quadrennial evaluation at the 16th session of the Universal Periodic [...]

The humor of Garrincha in El Nuevo Herald:

Juan Abreu talks about May Day and the lazy communists in his Emanaciones #1407 (my translation): 1407 Today is May 1st, International Workers' Day, and the day appropriated by communists who just happen to be the people who work the least in this world. I remember those May Day celebrations on the dreadful island with [...]