"Velazquez, who was an attorney advisor at the Department of Transportation and later worked at the (State Depts') U.S. Agency for International Development, allegedly used political connections to get Montes a position at the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1985." So that's one Cuban spy employed by the U.S. State dept. convincing her (apparently well-connected) chums [...]

Yet more Cuba "EXPERTISE" from John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies! Ana Belen Montes was a two-bit underling, it appears. She was recruited by a Cuba "expert" and fellow Georgetown and John Hopkins frequenter, Marta Rita Velazquez, it appears. The indictment against this U.S. State Dept. Cuba "Expert" Velazquez came in 2004 but [...]

“I’ve dealt with a fairly rich number of exiles in the past but none can compare with the Cuban group for genuine stupidity and militant childishness. At times I feel sorry for Fidel Castro—a sculptor in silly putty.” (Desmond Fitzgerald, CIA head of the Cuban Task Force 1962) Desmond Fitzgerald, (Harvard Law LL.D., Kennedy family-intimate, [...]

From Travelzoo: "The ban on travel to Cuba was eased for U.S. citizens in the past two years, alllowing a small number of companies to hold "people-to-people licenses" to legally bring travelers from the States; this is what allowed Beyoncé and Jay-Z to visit Cuba this month. "Sopla-Moco" from customer below: I have been a [...]

According to Cubadebate, in Villa Marista's "Sala de la Gloria Combativa del Departamento de Seguridad del Estado" (Hall of GLory to Cuba's Security Services) sits a Rolex pulsar watch personally dedicated by U.S. Sec. of State (of the time) Henry Kissinger to "Agent Zafiro." The U.S. Sec. of State, you see, was thanking "Agent Zafiro" [...]

Last week Hilda Solis--champion of organized labor who served as Obama's Sec. of Labor from 2009 to Jan. 2013 and who now works for the anti Cuba-embargo consortium "Washington Office for Latin America" (WOLA)-- this very union activist was the honored quest of a Stalinist regime that outlawed labor-union activism under penalty of firing-squad, prison [...]

Word's getting out that some "performance artist," or "musician" or "poet" named Amanda Palmer composed a poem in honor of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Many are outraged but in fact the "poem" comes across as pretty ambiguous, and the proceeds--for what they're worth--are supposedly dedicated to a charity for the bombing victims. On the OTHER hand, this [...]

On April 22nd, 2000 the U.S. Dept. of Justice violated the U.S. constitution at the whim and behest of a Stalinist dictator that the very U.S. Dept. of State officially condemns as a “State Sponsor of Terror.” All that stomping and macing and firepower in the dawn hours of April 22, 2000 horrified and enraged [...]

And he's bad, bad, Carlos Eire... baddest man in the whole damn town.. badder than 'ole King Kong... So what accounts for this Latin American eccentricity of constitutional plasticity? A passage in Professor Carlos Eire’s book, Learning to Die in Miami, where he explores his assimilation to American life may give us a starting cultural [...]

"Is Wi-Fi available in our rooms?" We thought it was a reasonable question since wireless Internet access is common in resorts and hotels worldwide. The manager laughed and replied, "Sorry. The government doesn't allow it. Local residents might pick up the signal." Such is life at resorts in Cuba..... ...Now back when Cuba was "under [...]

A teenager with a pressure-cooker, a few small bombs and a pistol "shutdown" one of the richest, most dynamic, most sophisticated and financially-vital cities in the Western hemisphere... ...Helicopters!...Armored vehicles! (veritable tanks!)...1000 heavily armed cops on a manhunt!... ....then the teenager was finally captured only because the shutdown was temporarily LIFTED...and because of a fluke [...]

On the day of the Boston Marathon, during which Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly planted two bombs that killed three people and injured more than 170, the teen quoted a lyric from Jay-Z's 2001 single "Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)." "Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay [...]

Okay, now who said the following....30 seconds: "I believe U.S.policy towards Cuba is cruel and unfair, profoundly unneighborly. My greatest desire is to see amicable relations emerge between the United States and Cuba. I hope our government will abandon its hostility towards Cuba and to work with Havana in a spirit of tolerance, mutual respect, [...]

Sunil Tripathi with idol on breast Last night social media hotheads and loudmouths had the hapless Sunil Tripathi (A Brown Univ. student still missing) pegged as an "official" marathon bombing suspect. Not so: The name Sunil Tripathi suddenly began trending worldwide on Twitter, with many tweets reporting that the Boston Police Department scanner had named [...]