Cubazuela's favorite actor gave an A-list Cannes audience a vodka-fueled sample of his deep critical thinking yesterday.  The event, bankrolled by fashionista Giorgio Armani, and sponsored by the activist group,  "Artists for Peace and Justice," drew a glittering crowd of would-be ethicists and political scientists from the film industry.
According to  Britain's top newspaper, The Daily [...]

Today I received an email from a reader who disagreed with my essay on reconciliation, and compared me to those who crucified Christ. I post this missive below, and my response to it.
Wishing I could be at Cuba Nostalgia.........................
The e-mail:
Reconciliation in religious terms begins as an intimate human process and completes or complements its [...]

Hey! Thanks for the post, Alberto. The images came flooding out of my vault of oblivion, like the Atlantic Ocean into the ballroom of the Titanic. @#!%$#@!
I collected these "postalitas" and filled up my album while casting a wary eye on all of the propaganda nonsense. I pasted them on the newsprint-quality paper with mucilage [...]

This has nothing to do with Cuba, but it's good news, for a change.  And if good news can come out of Egypt, well... maybe there is hope left for Cuba.
LUXOR, Egypt – The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead. [...]

Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed (John 3:20)
Not much has changed in the  two millennia since this Gospel passage was written, as far as hiding from the light is concerned. In Cuba, those government agents who stir [...]

According to the Spanish newspaper ABC,  an opposition party in Venezuela -- Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) -- has asked the country's supreme court to convene a medical panel in order to verify whether or not Hugo Chavez is fit to perform his duties as president. If the court agrees to this and its designated [...]

More coincidences.....

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Er... How could you NOT notice?
Mere coincidence?  Maybe.  In the Twilight Zone, maybe.
It's one of the oldest and most over-used of communist slogans.  Forward, Pa'lante, Vorwarts,  and so on. Some have noticed.  Take a look here and here.
Below, a modest gallery....from... the Twilight Zone

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“Reconciliation” (reconciliación) has suddenly become a key word in Cubanspeak, due to its frequent use by Catholic bishops on both sides of the Florida Straits. It’s a word that is being used very carelessly by these prelates, and without reference to the full meaning given to it by the Roman Catholic Church. The [...]

The Spanish newspaper ABC reports that Hugo Chavez is now using a cane and a wheelchair, and that his cancer continues to spread aggressively.
Journalist Nelson Bocaranda, who claims to be in close contact with Chavez's Venezuelan and Brazilian doctors, says that Chavez can no longer walk unassisted due to the cancer that has invaded his [...]

According to the rules established by Pope John Paul II, all bishops are required to retire when they reach the age of 75. Cardinal Ortega was born in October 1936. This means he is overdue for forced retirement, yet, he clings to his post, and the Holy Father allows him to do [...]

News flash, courtesy of the BBC: An Australian billionaire plans to build a replica of the Titanic. Within four years,  Titanic II will be cruising the high seas,  in search of icebergs.  "It is going to be designed so it won't sink," said the billionaire entrepreneur.  Seriously.  Yeah.  You bet, mate.  Never mind [...]

Lo and behold: the CIA boss responsible for extracting information from Al-Qaeda terrorists was a "Latino." How about that?
Jose Rodriguez, born in Puerto Rico, headed the CIA's National Clandestine Service, and was the man ultimately responsible for all of the waterboarding and other "enhanced" interrogation techniques. Recently interviewed by Lesley Stahl for [...]

Never, ever, take the role of Judas lightly
For some unexplained reason, this news story surfaced today, even though the incident occurred nearly three weeks ago. The fact that this piece of news is making the rounds at exactly the same time as that of Cardinal Jaime Ortega's visit to Harvard, set me to thinking [...]

Singer Harry Belafonte visited Yale University last week. I missed his appearance, since I am on sabbatical leave and holed up in my writing bunker fifteen miles from campus.  Too bad.
Harry was here to talk about social justice and philanthropy. According to news reports from New Haven’s only television station, here is part [...]

Knowing that it can make more money out of its citizens abroad than from the ones at home, the military junta that runs the island prison has just announced that it is about to lift restrictions on those who want to leave Cuba. Never one to mince words, Ricardo Alarcon, top-level goon and Minister [...]

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop...the Twilight Zone.

As Rod Serling might have said in 1961, on his show, The Twilight Zone:
Historical artifact for your consideration.  A magazine featuring a [...]

Even the liberal  New Republic would like to let the world know how Pope Benedict XVI betrayed the Cuban people. Here is an essay that they commissioned me to write:
When Pope Benedict XVI travelled to Cuba two weeks ago, he was acting within a long tradition. Popes, after all, are not only spiritual [...]

Political repression and religious persecution come in many forms. In the so-called First World the worst agents of repression are those who adhere to "political correctness."   The saddest and most illogical twist in the thinking of these ideologues is that while they push for "diversity" as one of the highest goals every society [...]

I have two birthdays: the day I was born in Cuba, and the day I went into exile in the United States.  Today was my second birthday.  Today I turned fifty, as an exile, and as an American.
Fifty years ago, my brother Tony and I boarded a KLM propeller plane at Rancho Boyeros airport in [...]